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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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The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
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If human beings can be trained for cruelty and greed and a belief in power which comes through hate and fear and force, certainly we can train equally well for greatness and mercy and the power of love which comes because of the strength of the good qualities to be found in the soul of every human being.
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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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A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.
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Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart.
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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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I have never believed that war settled anything satisfactorily, but I am not entirely sure that some times there are certain situations in the world such as we have in actuality when a country is worse off when it does not go to war for its principles than if it went to war.
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it is harder to be philosophical when you are young.
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You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
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We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.
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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.
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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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No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
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I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
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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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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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What you don't do can be a destructive force.
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Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide.
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As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do--I just did it.
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Do something everyday that scares you.
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