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The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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Diplomat
Feminist
Former First Lady Of The United States
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Peace Activist
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Manhattan borough
New York City
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No human being can ever own another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.
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Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers' money.
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You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
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It's your life-but only if you make it so.
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One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.
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We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.
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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
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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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How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
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You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.
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I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
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America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed.
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Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying attention to you.
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...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.
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This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?
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We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.
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Friends, you and me... you brought another friend... and then there were three... we started our group... our circle of friends... and like that circle... there is no beginning or end.
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