"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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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.“
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give."
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"Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide."
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"Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people."
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