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You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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Diplomat
Feminist
Former First Lady Of The United States
Human Rights Activist
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New York City
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The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly disgusted me. If I needed anything to show me what prejudice can do to the intelligence of human beings that campaign was the best lesson I could have had.
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To undo a mistake is always harder than not to create one originally but we seldom have the foresight. Therefore we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes.
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The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.
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...without equality there can be no democracy.
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A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
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America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed.
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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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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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What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
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I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public official was to do exactly as the majority of women were doing.
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No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!
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What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great masses of people, wherever they may be, will affect our long-range welfare, just as though they were our own people.
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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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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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It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government.
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Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain.
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Terrific minds focus on tips average minds go over activities little minds talk about people today.
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No one from the beginning of time has had security.
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I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
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Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge
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