"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
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"Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.“
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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