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The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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Former First Lady Of The United States
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A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.
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Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
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A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
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So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.
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It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
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We must want for others, not ourselves alone.
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...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.
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Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.
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The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live.
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A great deal of fear is a result of just “not knowing.” We do not know what is involved in a new situation. We do not know whether we can deal with it. The sooner we learn what it entails, the sooner we can dissolve our fear.
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Nobody else is going to do the things which are yours to be done in the world.
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Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.
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To undo a mistake is always harder than not to create one originally but we seldom have the foresight. Therefore we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes.
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... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.
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Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’
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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.
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Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength.
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Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.
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To a certain extent I don't see any real need for socialism in the United States immediately, but things change and it may be that there will come a need for partial changes in our economy.
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The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today.
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