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Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes:

Ocupation: Former First Lady of the United States

Life: October 11, 1884 - November 7, 1962

Birthday: October 11

Death: November 7

...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

source: Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.153, Westminster John Knox Press

topic: Running, Long, Greed, Violence And Cruelty

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