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One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is.

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
Feminist
Former First Lady Of The United States
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Peace Activist
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Manhattan borough
New York City
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experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
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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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Do something everyday that scares you.
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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.
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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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One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public is capable of doing its own censoring.
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Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
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I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public official was to do exactly as the majority of women were doing.
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Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers' money.
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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
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We must want for others, not ourselves alone.
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Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest readers of books per capita. This is an incalculable loss. This, too, is one of the few civilized nations in the world which is unable to support a single magazine devoted solely to books.
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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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Do one thing everyday that scares you. Those small things that make us uncomfortable help us build courage to do the work we do.
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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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The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.
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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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