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As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.
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
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New York City
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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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Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge
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It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
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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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Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
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It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.
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You seem to think that everyone can save money if they have the character to do it. As a matter of fact, there are innumerable people who have a wide choice between saving and giving their children the best possible opportunities. The decision is usually in favor of the children.
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Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
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One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is.
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If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.
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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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On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace.
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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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Courage is exhilarating.
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Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
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Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying attention to you.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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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It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
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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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.
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