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The most important word in the English language is hope.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Feminist
Former First Lady Of The United States
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Peace Activist
Politician
Writer
Manhattan borough
New York City
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
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First Lady of the world
Word
Hope
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Important
English

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We must do that which we think we cannot.
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You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.
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How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every nation do not rise up and refuse to bring children into a world of this kind is beyond my understanding.
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Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
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It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
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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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Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.
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Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.
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Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
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No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
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I don't know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many ways, I'm not really very much interested in Capitalism.
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Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career.
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Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest readers of books per capita. This is an incalculable loss. This, too, is one of the few civilized nations in the world which is unable to support a single magazine devoted solely to books.
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What one has to do usually can be done.
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The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
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When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
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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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As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
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The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.
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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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