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I'm Enormously Interested In Freedom And Retaining The Right To Have Whatever Economy We Want And To Shape It As We Want And A Having Sufficient Democracy So That The People Actually Hold Their Government In Their Own Hands.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

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I'm Enormously Interested In

Eleanor Roosevelt

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I'm Enormously Interested In Freedom And Retaining The Right To Have Whatever Economy We Want And To Shape It As We Want And A Having Sufficient Democracy So That The People Actually Hold Their Government In Their Own Hands.

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I Know That We Will Be The Sufferers If We Let Great Wrongs Occur Without Exerting Ourselves To Correct Them.

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To Me Who Dreamed So Much As A Child, Who Made A Dreamworld In Which I Was The Heroine Of An Unending Story, The Lives Of People Around Me Continued To Have A Certain Storybook Quality. I Learned Something Which Has Stood Me In Good Stead Many Times - The Most Important Thing In Any Relationship Is Not What You Get But What You Give.

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The People Who Came To New England, Came For Freedom Of Religion. The Problem Is, Freedom Of Religion To Them Meant Freedom For Only Their Religion

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You Seem To Think That Everyone Can Save Money If They Have The Character To Do It. As A Matter Of Fact, There Are Innumerable People Who Have A Wide Choice Between Saving And Giving Their Children The Best Possible Opportunities. The Decision Is Usually In Favor Of The Children.

The Purpose Of Life Is To Live It, To Taste Experience To The Utmost, To Reach Out Eagerly And Without Fear For Newer And Richer Experience.

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This Is A Strange, Little, Complacent Country [switzerland], In Many Ways A Usa In Miniature But Of Course Nearer The Center Of Disturbance!

The Mobilization Of World Opinion And Methods Of Negotiation Should Be Developed And Used By Every Nation In Order To Strengthen The United Nations.

You Must Do The Things You Think You Cannot Do.

Change Means The Unknown.

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