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Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it. ↗

— Jean Racine

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

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When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics. ↗

— Frank Rich

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Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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