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I don't know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many ways, I'm not really very much interested in Capitalism.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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Feminist
Former First Lady Of The United States
Human Rights Activist
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New York City
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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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the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.
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Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.
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No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!
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Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas
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We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.
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To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.
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The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.
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People who 'view with alarm' never build anything.
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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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Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.
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Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!
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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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If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.
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...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.
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