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Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Feminist
Former First Lady Of The United States
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Peace Activist
Politician
Writer
Manhattan borough
New York City
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First Lady of the world
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If human beings can be trained for cruelty and greed and a belief in power which comes through hate and fear and force, certainly we can train equally well for greatness and mercy and the power of love which comes because of the strength of the good qualities to be found in the soul of every human being.
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I think the thing we must look for actually is a growth in our people and in whoever comes in a quality of courage to tell our people just what world conditions are.
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We will never have peace without friendship around the world.
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To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.
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We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
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Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.
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A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
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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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In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
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It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.
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...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.
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Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career.
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I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
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It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.
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The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.
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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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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.
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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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Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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