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The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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Diplomat
Feminist
Former First Lady Of The United States
Human Rights Activist
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Manhattan borough
New York City
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt
First Lady of the world
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It's your life-but only if you make it so.
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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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain.
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I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.
Eleanor Roosevelt
One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.
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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established.
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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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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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I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.
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As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
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Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.
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No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
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I have never believed that war settled anything satisfactorily, but I am not entirely sure that some times there are certain situations in the world such as we have in actuality when a country is worse off when it does not go to war for its principles than if it went to war.
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Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.
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I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The most important word in the English language is hope.
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Do one thing every day that scares you.
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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
The purpose of life afterall is to live it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
