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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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Former First Lady Of The United States
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
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Never be bored, and you will never be boring.
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...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.
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I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
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The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!
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One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is.
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Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide.
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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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I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
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Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time. It is yours. Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it.
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About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.
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My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
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All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we are patriotic in the real sense of the word. ... Outward behavior, while important, is not the real measure of a man's patriotism.
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People can only make you inferior with your consent.
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In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
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I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
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No one from the beginning of time has had security.
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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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Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.
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