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Eleanor Roosevelt
American
First Lady
Born:
Oct 11
,
1884
Died:
Nov 7
,
1962
Best
Life
Own
People
Think
You
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Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship
World
Important
Else
Self
Because
Without
Friends
Anyone
Anyone Else
Cannot
I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
Eleanor Roosevelt
Life
Important
Complicate
Glad
Never
Feel
Does
It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Vocation
More
Vacation
Need
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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Education
Faith
Government
History
Happy
People
Will
Think
Recognize
Religious
Religious Faith
Never
Particular
For The People
Particularly
Knows
Arrangement
Domination
Any
The History Of
Anyone
Who
Europe
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Experience
Fear
Fears
Believe
Record
He
Until
Him
Doing
Provided
Gets
Behind
Anyone
Them
Successful
Conquer
Keeps
Things
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
Happiness
Good
You
Joy
Thought
Giving
Others
Out
Able
Give
More
Put
Since
Deal
Get
Should
Good Deal
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Life
Rich
Too
Meet
Everyone
Later
Must
Easy
Sooner
Sooner Or Later
Beware
Come
Ready
Blows
May
Which
Poor
Us
Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Great
Women
Value
Made
Men
Whatever
Too
Given
Without
Up
Dominated
Offer
Often
Form
Decisions
Them
Aside
Bodies
Special
Wholly
Expression
Originated
You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Life
You
Yourself
Become
Own
Live
Else
Through
Never
Exert
Child
Influence
Anyone
Really
Your
Even
Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Hate
World
Rest
Having
Part
Force
Without
Effect
Just
Cannot
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Decision
Live
Think
Somehow
Learn
Then
Really
Who
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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Good
Better
Too
Guests
Pleased
Only
Advantage
Feel
Housekeeper
How
Very
Being
Much
Your
I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
Eleanor Roosevelt
War
Best
Win
Will
Believe
Solution
No-One
Won
Next
Last
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Life
Whatever
Back
Alive
Must
Never
His
Curiosity
Turn
Reason
Lived
Kept
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
Sense
Lasting
Our
Gives
Contacts
Most
Greatest
Being
Wanted
Which
Us
Really
Creates
Satisfaction
Bond
Needed
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Work
Best
Experience
Way
Out
Has-Been
Best Way
Oneself
Almost
Been
Depths
Pull
You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You
Change
People
Try
Nothing
Faster
Accept
Priority
According
Than
Done
Move
Mean
Means
Fast
Things
Need
As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Had
Along
Came
Accomplishments
Did
Just
Things
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Age
Old
Own
Old Age
Add
Enough
Deformity
Never
Vice
Them
Should
Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
Eleanor Roosevelt
War
Think
Suicide
Must
Would
Anyone
Next
Who
Thinks
Actors are one family over the entire world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Family
World
Entire
Entire World
Over
Actor
The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Family
Mother
Look
Housekeeping
Occupation
Scientific
Meals
Should
Planning
Her
I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president's wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Myself
Wife
Somewhere
Lost
White
White House
Down
Think
President
Way
Those
Though
Inside
Someone
Outside
Had
Almost
Until
House
Felt
Years
Left
Very
Worked
Who
Deep
Deep Down
Lived
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Ambition
Despicable
Finds
Merit
Any
Cannot
Use
Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Time
Behavior
Car
Everybody
President
Back
Parade
Possible
See
Lean
Talking
Always
Wives
Campaign
Little
Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Life
Journey
You
Own
Analyze
Find
About
Something
Only
Through
Read
May
Autobiographies
Your
Useful
Lives
Suggest
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