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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
Human Rights Activist
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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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When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.
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If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!
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