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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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At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.
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I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.
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Curiosity must be kept alive.
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A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
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Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.
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We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established.
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I believe you should tell the story of injustices, of inequalities, of bad conditions, so that the people as a whole in this country really face the problems that people who are pushed to the point of striking know all about, but others know practically nothing about.
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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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You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
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As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do--I just did it.
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You always admire what you really don't understand. - Eleanor Roosevelt
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We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.
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Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.
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The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.
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No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
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No human being can ever own another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder
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What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great masses of people, wherever they may be, will affect our long-range welfare, just as though they were our own people.
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Work is always an antidote to depression.
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Do something everyday that scares you.
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