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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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If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.
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I found that almost everyone had something interesting to contribute to my education.
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What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
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Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
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It is a rather curious thing to have to divide one's life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one's official duties are at an end.
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it is harder to be philosophical when you are young.
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what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners, we might get a little further. It sounds less righteous and more practical.
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A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.
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The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live.
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...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.
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All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.
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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 seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.
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One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is.
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There is in every country an antipathy to the foreigner.
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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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Do one thing everyday that scares you. Those small things that make us uncomfortable help us build courage to do the work we do.
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it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.
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I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.
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