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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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The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
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I don't know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many ways, I'm not really very much interested in Capitalism.
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Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time. It is yours. Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it.
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I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.
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Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can't be done.
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We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment.
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You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.
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All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.
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I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.
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Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.
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The purpose of life afterall is to live it.
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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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I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.
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If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong with the American game of politics.
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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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Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people.
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If human beings can be trained for cruelty and greed and a belief in power which comes through hate and fear and force, certainly we can train equally well for greatness and mercy and the power of love which comes because of the strength of the good qualities to be found in the soul of every human being.
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Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.
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You achieve strength, braveness and confidence by each experience in which you really halt to search dread during the deal with
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Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.
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