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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
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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The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.
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The basis of all good human behavior is kindness.
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Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
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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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The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly disgusted me. If I needed anything to show me what prejudice can do to the intelligence of human beings that campaign was the best lesson I could have had.
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
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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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To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.
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those who attack always do so with greater fervor than those who defend.
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Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person.
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