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The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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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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People can only make you inferior with your consent.
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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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Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers' money.
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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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Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines.
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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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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
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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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A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions
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I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public official was to do exactly as the majority of women were doing.
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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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It is impossible to be a cynic if you live a good deal with young people. Fundamentally, every young person has a feeling that the future is going to hold something of value.
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I'm sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder
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About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.
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We need our radicals.
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It's your life-but only if you make it so.
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I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.
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You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
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