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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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First Lady of the world
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If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.
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There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.
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The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.
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Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
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People who 'view with alarm' never build anything.
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