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I found that almost everyone had something interesting to contribute to my education.

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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Each of us has... all the time there is. Those years, weeks, hours, are the sands in the glass running swiftly away. To let them drift through our fingers is tragic waste. To use them to the hilt, making them count for something, is the beginning of wisdom.
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It is impossible to be a cynic if you live a good deal with young people. Fundamentally, every young person has a feeling that the future is going to hold something of value.
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When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.
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Philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes.
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Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.
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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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A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.
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It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.
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On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace.
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I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed)
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Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.
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Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide.
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I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
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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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Never be bored, and you will never be boring.
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Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.
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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
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In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good.
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Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.
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No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
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