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I never met Mahatma Gandhi, but, I think everyone felt they knew him even if they hadn't met him.
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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
Human Rights Activist
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New York City
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First Lady of the world
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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.
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There is in every country an antipathy to the foreigner.
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What one has to do usually can be done.
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The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly disgusted me. If I needed anything to show me what prejudice can do to the intelligence of human beings that campaign was the best lesson I could have had.
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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 more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.
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I think that if the atomic bomb did nothing more, it scared the people to the point where they realized that either they must do something about preventing war or there is a chance that there might be a morning when we would not wake up.
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You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
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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 not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.
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I believe that all that we go through here must have some value.
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Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide.
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Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.
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The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
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Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart.
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Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
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All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.
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Do one thing every day that scares you.
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You must do the things you think you cannot do.
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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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