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People can only make you inferior with your consent.

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
Writer
Manhattan borough
New York City
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First Lady of the world
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We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Every day do something that frightens you.
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The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.
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Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
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This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.
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There is in every country an antipathy to the foreigner.
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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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Friends, you and me... you brought another friend... and then there were three... we started our group... our circle of friends... and like that circle... there is no beginning or end.
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The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.
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Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.
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Never be bored, and you will never be boring.
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All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.
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Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
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I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
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We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.
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I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed)
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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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Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge
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I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
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No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!
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