A Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt
American - First lady
October 11, 1884 - November 7, 1962

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E. M. Forster

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Cory Doctorow

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Horace Mann

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Ben Gibbard

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