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No human being can ever own another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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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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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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To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.
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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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The only joy in this hard life is serving others.
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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 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.'
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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
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The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.
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All of life is a constant education.
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You do the things that need to be done according to priority.
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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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It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
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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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It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.
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We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established.
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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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Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.
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If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.
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You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
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