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America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed.

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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Feminist
Former First Lady Of The United States
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Peace Activist
Politician
Writer
Manhattan borough
New York City
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First Lady of the world
Nasty
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No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.
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Everybody wants something.
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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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It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
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The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
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If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.
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We don't become heroes overnight. - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
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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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I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.
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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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Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge
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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
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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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Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.
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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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As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
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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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Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’
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What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great masses of people, wherever they may be, will affect our long-range welfare, just as though they were our own people.
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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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