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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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All work undertaken should be useful - not just for a day, or a year, but useful in the sense that it affords permanent improvement in living conditions or that it creates future new wealth for the Nation. ✨ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Gramercy
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