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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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Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
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...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.
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The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.
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I have never believed that war settled anything satisfactorily, but I am not entirely sure that some times there are certain situations in the world such as we have in actuality when a country is worse off when it does not go to war for its principles than if it went to war.
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I never met Mahatma Gandhi, but, I think everyone felt they knew him even if they hadn't met him.
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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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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.
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Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
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The purpose of life afterall is to live it.
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Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.
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Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength.
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Courage is exhilarating.
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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
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