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the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.
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
Journalist
Peace Activist
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Manhattan borough
New York City
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Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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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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those who attack always do so with greater fervor than those who defend.
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I have a great objection to seeing anyone, particularly anyone whom I care about, lose his self-control.
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Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.
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If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I could never say in the morning, I have a headache and cannot do thus and so. Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.
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The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
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...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.
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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
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Do one thing every day that scares you.
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To undo a mistake is always harder than not to create one originally but we seldom have the foresight. Therefore we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Never be bored, and you will never be boring.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.
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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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It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
Eleanor Roosevelt
If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.
Eleanor Roosevelt
If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.
Eleanor Roosevelt
