"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
"One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism."
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Source: Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.93, Da Capo Press
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