"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
"Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable."
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Source: Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”
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