"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"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
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