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How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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Former First Lady Of The United States
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New York City
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The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
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It is a rather curious thing to have to divide one's life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one's official duties are at an end.
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When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted
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Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.
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Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.
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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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You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude
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You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
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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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We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.
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The basis of all good human behavior is kindness.
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I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.
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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.
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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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If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.
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