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I never met Mahatma Gandhi, but, I think everyone felt they knew him even if they hadn't met him.

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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I'm enormously interested in freedom and retaining the right to have whatever economy we want and to shape it as we want and a having sufficient Democracy so that the people actually hold their Government in their own hands.
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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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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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Education is the cornerstone of liberty.
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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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Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.
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The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
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What you don't do can be a destructive force.
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When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
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...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.
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it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.
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The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone the secret of happiness in the declining years is to remain interested in life, as active as possible, useful to others, busy, and forward looking.
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I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.
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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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If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world.
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It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.
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Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.
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The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.
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I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.
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The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.
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