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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Topics: Built Character Courageously Experience Grow Honestly How Life Meet People Through

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Topics: Begin Cease Contribution Die Make You

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What you don't do can be a destructive force.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Topics: Destructive Force You

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The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Topics: Anything Battle Countenance Individual Individual Rights Long None Rights Should Standing Us Which Women

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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.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Topics: Being Bond Contacts Creates Gives Greatest Lasting Most Needed Our Really Satisfaction Sense Us Wanted Which

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Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Topics: Able Deal Get Give Giving Good Good Deal Happiness Joy More Others Out Put Should Since Thought You

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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Topics: Age Almost Begun Disappear Eager Entirely Evening Frequently Happiest Large Life Midday Middle Middle Age Morning Most Passions Period See Shadows Which Youth

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What one has to do usually can be done.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Topics: Done

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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Topics: Act Avenge Grow Human Misery Our Prevent Rather Tender Than Will

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Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Topics: Always Individual Obligation Only Remember Right You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: First Lady

Born: October 11th, 1884

Died: November 7th, 1962

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