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As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do--I just did 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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A great deal of fear is a result of just “not knowing.” We do not know what is involved in a new situation. We do not know whether we can deal with it. The sooner we learn what it entails, the sooner we can dissolve our fear.
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It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.
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You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
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Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
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It's your life-but only if you make it so.
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what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners, we might get a little further. It sounds less righteous and more practical.
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At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.
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The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.
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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.
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I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
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We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established.
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People can only make you inferior with your consent.
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Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.
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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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All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we are patriotic in the real sense of the word. ... Outward behavior, while important, is not the real measure of a man's patriotism.
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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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Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time. It is yours. Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it.
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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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To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.
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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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