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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Feminist
Former First Lady Of The United States
Human Rights Activist
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Manhattan borough
New York City
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The basis of all good human behavior is kindness.
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Enjoy every minute you have with those you love, my dear, for no one can take joy that is past away from you. It will be there in your heart to live on when the dark days come.
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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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The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today.
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I have complete faith in the American people's ability if they know and if they have leadership.
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You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.
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A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.
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The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.
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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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I found that almost everyone had something interesting to contribute to my education.
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Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.
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The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.
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The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.
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If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter.
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Success is not something that can be measured or worn on a watch or hung on a wall. It is not the esteem of colleagues, or the admiration of the community, or the appreciation of patients. Success is the certain knowledge that you have become yourself, the person you will meant to be from all time. That should be reward enough.
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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
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We will never have peace without friendship around the world.
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I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
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Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.
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