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Every day do something that frightens you.

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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How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every nation do not rise up and refuse to bring children into a world of this kind is beyond my understanding.
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I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
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Curiosity must be kept alive.
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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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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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The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly disgusted me. If I needed anything to show me what prejudice can do to the intelligence of human beings that campaign was the best lesson I could have had.
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A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.
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I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.
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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
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What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.
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This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.
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All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we are patriotic in the real sense of the word. ... Outward behavior, while important, is not the real measure of a man's patriotism.
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Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.
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Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people.
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For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.
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You seem to think that everyone can save money if they have the character to do it. As a matter of fact, there are innumerable people who have a wide choice between saving and giving their children the best possible opportunities. The decision is usually in favor of the children.
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The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.
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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.
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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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