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Everybody wants something.

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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
Wants
Everybody
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One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.
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I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
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Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.
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I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.
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The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.
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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 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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The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!
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A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions
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it is harder to be philosophical when you are young.
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We must want for others, not ourselves alone.
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I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.
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Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
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No one can move without some leadership.
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It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.
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You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face.
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Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.
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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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