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A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette.
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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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First Lady of the world
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Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’
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We need our radicals.
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It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government.
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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
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Everybody wants something.
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Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful.
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Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.
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One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is.
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...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.
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One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.
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Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
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Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart.
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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
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Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying attention to you.
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I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.
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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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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.
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You achieve strength, braveness and confidence by each experience in which you really halt to search dread during the deal with
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