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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
Human Rights Activist
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New York City
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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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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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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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...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.
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I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.
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Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
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We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.
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