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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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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.
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If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.
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I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
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Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can't be done.
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We must do that which we think we cannot.
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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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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
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Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person.
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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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Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
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No one from the beginning of time has had security.
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Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time. It is yours. Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it.
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
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Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
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Curiosity must be kept alive.
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