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" Be sincere; be brief; be seated. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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" The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. "

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" Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. "

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" The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart. "

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" There are as many opinions as there are experts. "

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" No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned. "

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" Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something. "

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" In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. "

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" We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon. "

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" I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments. "

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" I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making. "

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