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Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.
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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New York City
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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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The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.
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All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.
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I think the thing we must look for actually is a growth in our people and in whoever comes in a quality of courage to tell our people just what world conditions are.
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Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
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The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
Eleanor Roosevelt
A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette.
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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 best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.
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The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.
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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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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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I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few
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the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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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There is in every country an antipathy to the foreigner.
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
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Men have to be reminded that women exist.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I'm sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession.
Eleanor Roosevelt
