"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
"We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment."
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Source: Eleanor Roosevelt, Rochelle Chadakoff, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: First lady of the world, her acclaimed columns, 1953-1962”
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