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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.
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
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Peace Activist
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Manhattan borough
New York City
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First Lady of the world
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
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People can only make you inferior with your consent.
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Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without being related to you and repeatedly questioning why you're in nonprofit.
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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
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We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.
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To a certain extent I don't see any real need for socialism in the United States immediately, but things change and it may be that there will come a need for partial changes in our economy.
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I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public official was to do exactly as the majority of women were doing.
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It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
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I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.
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Every day do something that frightens you.
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Courage is exhilarating.
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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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I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
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Never be bored, and you will never be boring.
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As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
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The purpose of life afterall is to live it.
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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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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
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The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone the secret of happiness in the declining years is to remain interested in life, as active as possible, useful to others, busy, and forward looking.
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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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