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I wish I really knew what the Republican foreign policy has been. I don't. I am a Democrat, and I really don't know what it has been.

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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good.
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The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.
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A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
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Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest readers of books per capita. This is an incalculable loss. This, too, is one of the few civilized nations in the world which is unable to support a single magazine devoted solely to books.
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A great deal of fear is a result of just “not knowing.” We do not know what is involved in a new situation. We do not know whether we can deal with it. The sooner we learn what it entails, the sooner we can dissolve our fear.
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