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When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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I think that if the atomic bomb did nothing more, it scared the people to the point where they realized that either they must do something about preventing war or there is a chance that there might be a morning when we would not wake up.
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Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
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A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
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The basis of all good human behavior is kindness.
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One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.
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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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What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
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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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The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today.
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It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
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Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
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It is a rather curious thing to have to divide one's life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one's official duties are at an end.
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Education is the cornerstone of liberty.
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Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines.
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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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experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur.
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Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
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I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.
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Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.
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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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