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Long ago, I made up my mind that, when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge
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Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.
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To a certain extent I don't see any real need for socialism in the United States immediately, but things change and it may be that there will come a need for partial changes in our economy.
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the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.
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Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
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Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.
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Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing. It's about doing, being and becoming. It's about t Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
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The only joy in this hard life is serving others.
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If everything was in your favor, if you did not have to surmount any great mountains, then you have nothing to be proud of. But if you feel that you have special difficulties, then you must indeed be proud of your achievement.
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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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Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.
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Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.
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In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good.
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We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.
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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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