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a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.
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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First Lady of the world
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Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.
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A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.
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The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion
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I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
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What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great masses of people, wherever they may be, will affect our long-range welfare, just as though they were our own people.
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No one from the beginning of time has had security.
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I think that if the atomic bomb did nothing more, it scared the people to the point where they realized that either they must do something about preventing war or there is a chance that there might be a morning when we would not wake up.
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How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every nation do not rise up and refuse to bring children into a world of this kind is beyond my understanding.
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Friends, you and me... you brought another friend... and then there were three... we started our group... our circle of friends... and like that circle... there is no beginning or end.
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Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
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Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time that they did it.
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We will never have peace without friendship around the world.
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We need our radicals.
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experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur.
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