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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
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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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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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All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we are patriotic in the real sense of the word. ... Outward behavior, while important, is not the real measure of a man's patriotism.
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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
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Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
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When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
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True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded.
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Of course Mahatma Gandhi you might say did not have so much physical vigor but he certainly seemed to have extraordinary resistance, which perhaps is rather different from physical vigor.
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Enjoy every minute you have with those you love, my dear, for no one can take joy that is past away from you. It will be there in your heart to live on when the dark days come.
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The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.
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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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The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.
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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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Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
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Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge
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Work is always an antidote to depression.
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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 have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.
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I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
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Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
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Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can't be done.
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