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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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
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For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.
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Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
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Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
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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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We must do that which we think we cannot.
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You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.
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I found that almost everyone had something interesting to contribute to my education.
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I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public official was to do exactly as the majority of women were doing.
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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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A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
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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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
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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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We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.
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Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge
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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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Beautiful old people are works of art.
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It's your life-but only if you make it so.
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