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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind. Franklin Delano Roosevelt		Wednesday Feb 11, 2026
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Every civilization rests on a set of promises.... If the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes. Herbert Sebastian Agar

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	Herbert Sebastian Agar
	(1897-1980) The People's Choice, from Washington to Harding: A Study in Democracy, 1933 - US author, wrote historian, Pulitzer Prize for history 1934.

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. Every civilization rests on a set of promises.... If the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.