"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.“
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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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