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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
Journalist
Peace Activist
Politician
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Manhattan borough
New York City
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First Lady of the world
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As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
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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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Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
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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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Do one thing every day that scares you.
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Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can't be done.
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I found that almost everyone had something interesting to contribute to my education.
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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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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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There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.
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When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
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those who attack always do so with greater fervor than those who defend.
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Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing. It's about doing, being and becoming. It's about t Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
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Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder
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It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head.
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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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Men have to be reminded that women exist.
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Courage is exhilarating.
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Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.
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