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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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First Lady of the world
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If everything was in your favor, if you did not have to surmount any great mountains, then you have nothing to be proud of. But if you feel that you have special difficulties, then you must indeed be proud of your achievement.
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Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
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When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.
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a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.
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I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed)
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If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
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I'm sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession.
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If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.
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Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
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A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.
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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.
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If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world.
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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
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A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette.
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The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion
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I think that if the atomic bomb did nothing more, it scared the people to the point where they realized that either they must do something about preventing war or there is a chance that there might be a morning when we would not wake up.
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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 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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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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