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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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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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Friends, you and me... you brought another friend... and then there were three... we started our group... our circle of friends... and like that circle... there is no beginning or end.
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Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’
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Education is the cornerstone of liberty.
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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.
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We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.
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A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
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The basis of all good human behavior is kindness.
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To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.
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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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Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
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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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We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.
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As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.
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