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This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?

Eleanor Roosevelt

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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
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Manhattan borough
New York City
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First Lady of the world
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Democracy

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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.
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Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.
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I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.
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The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.
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No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
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A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.
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Do one thing every day that scares you.
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Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
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What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.
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Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying attention to you.
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I wish I really knew what the Republican foreign policy has been. I don't. I am a Democrat, and I really don't know what it has been.
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One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
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Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
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Anger is one letter short of danger.
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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
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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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If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter.
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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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