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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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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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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New York City
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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt
First Lady of the world
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I'm enormously interested in freedom and retaining the right to have whatever economy we want and to shape it as we want and a having sufficient Democracy so that the people actually hold their Government in their own hands.
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If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong with the American game of politics.
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The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone the secret of happiness in the declining years is to remain interested in life, as active as possible, useful to others, busy, and forward looking.
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It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
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I believe that all that we go through here must have some value.
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... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.
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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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Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
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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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I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.
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All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.
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You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.
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I never waste time looking back.
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You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude
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Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.
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The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.
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Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.
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Friends, you and me... you brought another friend... and then there were three... we started our group... our circle of friends... and like that circle... there is no beginning or end.
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Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
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Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.
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