"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
"Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful."
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Source: Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”
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