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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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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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The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.
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those who attack always do so with greater fervor than those who defend.
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One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
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I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
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Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.
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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.
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Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
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If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.
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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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It is impossible to be a cynic if you live a good deal with young people. Fundamentally, every young person has a feeling that the future is going to hold something of value.
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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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It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
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I never waste time looking back.
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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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No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
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We don't become heroes overnight. - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
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In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
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