“We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.”
Eleanor Roosevelt · The New York Times, 1960
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Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
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This is the closing note of her autobiography, and it reads like advice she actually followed. Curiosity is the thread that runs through her whole life.
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