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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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things and they felt they had about the same understanding.
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Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.
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Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.
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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 get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face.
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I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
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To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.
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Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
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I think that if the atomic bomb did nothing more, it scared the people to the point where they realized that either they must do something about preventing war or there is a chance that there might be a morning when we would not wake up.
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Every day do something that frightens you.
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Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
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I don't know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many ways, I'm not really very much interested in Capitalism.
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Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide.
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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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Men have to be reminded that women exist.
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You must do the things you think you cannot do.
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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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When it's better for everyone, it's better for everyone.
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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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Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.
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