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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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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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 future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
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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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I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
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Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
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No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
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To a certain extent I don't see any real need for socialism in the United States immediately, but things change and it may be that there will come a need for partial changes in our economy.
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It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
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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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