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When it's better for everyone, it's better for everyone.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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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
Journalist
Peace Activist
Politician
Writer
Manhattan borough
New York City
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First Lady of the world
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Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.
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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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Terrific minds focus on tips average minds go over activities little minds talk about people today.
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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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Absence makes the heart grow fonder
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How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every nation do not rise up and refuse to bring children into a world of this kind is beyond my understanding.
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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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So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.
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Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.
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Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.
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...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.
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I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
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Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’
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Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.
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The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.
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I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
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I'm sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession.
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It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.
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I could never say in the morning, I have a headache and cannot do thus and so. Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.
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A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
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