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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
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"A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money."

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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
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"If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions, not wholly unworthy of its almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly, alone, hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors."

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Edward Young Poet, Playwright
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"If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world."

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Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
World

"The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations."

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Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
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"what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners, we might get a little further. It sounds less righteous and more practical."

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Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
World

"What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now."

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Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
World

"I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions."

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Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
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"What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great masses of people, wherever they may be, will affect our long-range welfare, just as though they were our own people."

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Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
World

"Our obligation to the world is, primarily, our obligation to our own future. Obviously, we cannot develop beyond a certain point unless other nations develop, too."

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Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
World

"After the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer: The bottom dropped out of my own particular world, I faced myself, my surroundings, my world, honestly for the first time."

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