"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
"Long ago, I made up my mind that, when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit."
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Source: My Day Column by Eleanor Roosevelt, www2.gwu.edu. January 14, 1942.
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