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Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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Feminist
Former First Lady Of The United States
Human Rights Activist
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Peace Activist
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Manhattan borough
New York City
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The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.
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Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
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Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines.
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You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude
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When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted
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Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.
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Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's lie, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life and what you become yourself.
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Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.
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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.
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Most women, I think, though they may complain a little about this, would agree that meeting the needs of others is not a real burden it is what makes life worth living. It is probably the deepest satisfaction a woman has.
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To a certain extent I don't see any real need for socialism in the United States immediately, but things change and it may be that there will come a need for partial changes in our economy.
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To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.
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Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
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What one has to do usually can be done.
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It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.
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A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.
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One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public is capable of doing its own censoring.
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Education is the cornerstone of liberty.
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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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What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
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