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Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.
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
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Human Rights Activist
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New York City
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When it's better for everyone, it's better for everyone.
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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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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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I have a great objection to seeing anyone, particularly anyone whom I care about, lose his self-control.
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One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.
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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do.
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I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.
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It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a rule, papers are largely supported by advertising, and that immediately gives the advertisers a certain hold over the medium they use.
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Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
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Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.
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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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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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On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace.
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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
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To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.
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When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.
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Never be bored, and you will never be boring.
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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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A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.
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Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
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