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A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.
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
Politician
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Manhattan borough
New York City
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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt
First Lady of the world
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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.
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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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Men have to be reminded that women exist.
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Terrific minds focus on tips average minds go over activities little minds talk about people today.
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Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.
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You must do the things you think you cannot do.
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For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.
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You do the things that need to be done according to priority.
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One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
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Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
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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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The most important word in the English language is hope.
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Do something everyday that scares you.
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The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.
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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.
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No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!
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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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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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I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.
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When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
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