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Eleanor Roosevelt

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

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"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

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"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."
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"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"
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"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."
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"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."
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"Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable."
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"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."
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"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."
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"Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."
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"My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths."
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