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About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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If everything was in your favor, if you did not have to surmount any great mountains, then you have nothing to be proud of. But if you feel that you have special difficulties, then you must indeed be proud of your achievement.
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Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.
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Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
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We need our radicals.
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It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head.
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The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.
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You must do the things you think you cannot do.
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Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
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As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.
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To a certain extent I don't see any real need for socialism in the United States immediately, but things change and it may be that there will come a need for partial changes in our economy.
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The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone the secret of happiness in the declining years is to remain interested in life, as active as possible, useful to others, busy, and forward looking.
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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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For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.
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