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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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Diplomat
Feminist
Former First Lady Of The United States
Human Rights Activist
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Manhattan borough
New York City
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
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First Lady of the world
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Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines.
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I have never believed that war settled anything satisfactorily, but I am not entirely sure that some times there are certain situations in the world such as we have in actuality when a country is worse off when it does not go to war for its principles than if it went to war.
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Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time that they did it.
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To undo a mistake is always harder than not to create one originally but we seldom have the foresight. Therefore we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes.
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Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide.
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If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.
Eleanor Roosevelt
what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners, we might get a little further. It sounds less righteous and more practical.
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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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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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Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person.
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government.
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We must want for others, not ourselves alone.
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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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We don't become heroes overnight. - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
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it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.
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It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a rule, papers are largely supported by advertising, and that immediately gives the advertisers a certain hold over the medium they use.
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I have a great objection to seeing anyone, particularly anyone whom I care about, lose his self-control.
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What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Do one thing every day that scares you.
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