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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
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Human Rights Activist
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Peace Activist
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Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.
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Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
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Each of us has... all the time there is. Those years, weeks, hours, are the sands in the glass running swiftly away. To let them drift through our fingers is tragic waste. To use them to the hilt, making them count for something, is the beginning of wisdom.
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We will never have peace without friendship around the world.
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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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Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.
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To tell the people in the West not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for weeks and weeks nor have a way of getting a sick person to a doctor.
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The basis of all good human behavior is kindness.
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When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.
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Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide.
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True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded.
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Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without being related to you and repeatedly questioning why you're in nonprofit.
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People can only make you inferior with your consent.
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Friends, you and me... you brought another friend... and then there were three... we started our group... our circle of friends... and like that circle... there is no beginning or end.
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We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
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The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone the secret of happiness in the declining years is to remain interested in life, as active as possible, useful to others, busy, and forward looking.
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I never waste time looking back.
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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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