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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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Peace Activist
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We must do that which we think we cannot.
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Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.
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Long ago, I made up my mind that, when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.
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Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
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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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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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If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!
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The most important word in the English language is hope.
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No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.
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You must do the things you think you cannot do.
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Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career.
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Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength.
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a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.
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Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest readers of books per capita. This is an incalculable loss. This, too, is one of the few civilized nations in the world which is unable to support a single magazine devoted solely to books.
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You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.
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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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Of course Mahatma Gandhi you might say did not have so much physical vigor but he certainly seemed to have extraordinary resistance, which perhaps is rather different from physical vigor.
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If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world.
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The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion
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