Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. …

Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. ✨ Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1939, Volume 8, p.242, Best Books on
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