"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.“
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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