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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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I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.
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People can only make you inferior with your consent.
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I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.
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It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head.
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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
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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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To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.
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It is a rather curious thing to have to divide one's life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one's official duties are at an end.
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It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.
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Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?
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The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion
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No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.
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the term 'young adults' which is so often used today seems to me a misnomer, and one which, if taken seriously, may lead the adolescent into misunderstanding as to his nature and his role in life. 'Young he is 'adult' he is not.
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The purpose of life afterall is to live it.
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The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
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I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
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Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
Eleanor Roosevelt
We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.
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I have never believed that war settled anything satisfactorily, but I am not entirely sure that some times there are certain situations in the world such as we have in actuality when a country is worse off when it does not go to war for its principles than if it went to war.
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What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
Eleanor Roosevelt
