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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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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
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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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We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment.
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It's your life-but only if you make it so.
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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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Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
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Every day do something that frightens you.
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Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide.
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It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government.
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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
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If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!
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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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The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.
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It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
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A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette.
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...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.
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