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It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.

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
Writer
Manhattan borough
New York City
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First Lady of the world
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a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.
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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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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
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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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This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?
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The purpose of life afterall is to live it.
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Curiosity must be kept alive.
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We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!
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What you don't do can be a destructive force.
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the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.
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So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.
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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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One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.
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