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Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
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Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.
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If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.
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The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today.
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I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed)
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It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a rule, papers are largely supported by advertising, and that immediately gives the advertisers a certain hold over the medium they use.
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What you don't do can be a destructive force.
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Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.
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You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude
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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
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Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.
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Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
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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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You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face.
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There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.
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In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
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Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's lie, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life and what you become yourself.
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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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