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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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Manhattan borough
New York City
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
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It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a rule, papers are largely supported by advertising, and that immediately gives the advertisers a certain hold over the medium they use.
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The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
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We don't become heroes overnight. - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
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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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I'm sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession.
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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
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If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world.
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When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted
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Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful.
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We must do that which we think we cannot.
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The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.
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A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.
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