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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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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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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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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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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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experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur.
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Do one thing everyday that scares you. Those small things that make us uncomfortable help us build courage to do the work we do.
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I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.
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It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
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It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.
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To tell the people in the West not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for weeks and weeks nor have a way of getting a sick person to a doctor.
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it is harder to be philosophical when you are young.
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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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No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
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The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.
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I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.
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