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Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength.
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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Manhattan borough
New York City
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First Lady of the world
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The only joy in this hard life is serving others.
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On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace.
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Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
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Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.
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Courage is exhilarating.
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If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
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I believe you should tell the story of injustices, of inequalities, of bad conditions, so that the people as a whole in this country really face the problems that people who are pushed to the point of striking know all about, but others know practically nothing about.
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Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
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For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.
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Be flexible, but stick to your principles.
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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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I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.
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No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
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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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When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.
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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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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
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We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.
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No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.
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