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Nobody else is going to do the things which are yours to be done in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Feminist
Former First Lady Of The United States
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Peace Activist
Politician
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Manhattan borough
New York City
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experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur.
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In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
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The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.
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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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Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.
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To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.
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The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
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Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain.
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Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.
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It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
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Men have to be reminded that women exist.
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We will never have peace without friendship around the world.
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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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I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.
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People who 'view with alarm' never build anything.
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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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