So often people you admire at a distance do not mean so much to you after you meet them.
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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
This is a strange, little, complacent country Switzerland, in many ways a USA in miniature but of course nearer the center of disturbance.
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The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live, and that our own success, to be real, must contribute t.
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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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At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.
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