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Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.
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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We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment.
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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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Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain.
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Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.
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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
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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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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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It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government.
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One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.
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A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.
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What you don't do can be a destructive force.
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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
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You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude
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I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.
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It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
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Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers' money.
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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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