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Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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Diplomat
Feminist
Former First Lady Of The United States
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Peace Activist
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Manhattan borough
New York City
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First Lady of the world
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Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest readers of books per capita. This is an incalculable loss. This, too, is one of the few civilized nations in the world which is unable to support a single magazine devoted solely to books.
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the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.
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All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.
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We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.
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What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.
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The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt
experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Do one thing every day that scares you.
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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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No one from the beginning of time has had security.
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At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.
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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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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.
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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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Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without being related to you and repeatedly questioning why you're in nonprofit.
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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The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.
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It is a rather curious thing to have to divide one's life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one's official duties are at an end.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.
Eleanor Roosevelt
