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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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To undo a mistake is always harder than not to create one originally but we seldom have the foresight. Therefore we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes.
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It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a rule, papers are largely supported by advertising, and that immediately gives the advertisers a certain hold over the medium they use.
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It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
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What one has to do usually can be done.
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You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.
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Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.
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No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
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I never met Mahatma Gandhi, but, I think everyone felt they knew him even if they hadn't met him.
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Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.
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I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
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I don't know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many ways, I'm not really very much interested in Capitalism.
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The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.
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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 must do the things you think you cannot do.
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The purpose of life afterall is to live it.
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It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.
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The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.
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You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
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Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?
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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.
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