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Eleanor Roosevelt - When you build a memorial, you...
When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for generations who didn't know the man and didn't know the era in which he lived. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for generations who didn't know the man and didn't know the era in which he lived.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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