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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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Diplomat
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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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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Do one thing everyday that scares you. Those small things that make us uncomfortable help us build courage to do the work we do.
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Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things and they felt they had about the same understanding.
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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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No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
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Do something everyday that scares you.
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Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.
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About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.
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I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
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We don't become heroes overnight. - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
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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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How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.
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Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
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The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.
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The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.
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I wish I really knew what the Republican foreign policy has been. I don't. I am a Democrat, and I really don't know what it has been.
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