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... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.
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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New York City
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First Lady of the world
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the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.
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Curiosity must be kept alive.
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What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.
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Most women, I think, though they may complain a little about this, would agree that meeting the needs of others is not a real burden it is what makes life worth living. It is probably the deepest satisfaction a woman has.
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You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
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What you don't do can be a destructive force.
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If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong with the American game of politics.
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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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Terrific minds focus on tips average minds go over activities little minds talk about people today.
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Do something everyday that scares you.
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It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
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No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!
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What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
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