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Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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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

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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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

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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

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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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

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The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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