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Charm has an occasional contrary concomitant, heartlessness. The virtuoso is so pleased by the way he produces his effects that he disregards the audience. Once Dorothy Thompson came in to see FDR after a comparatively long period of having been snubbed by the White House—although she had deserted Wilkie for Roosevelt during the campaign just concluded, and as a result had been fired from The New York Herald Tribune, the best job she ever had. Roosevelt greeted her with the remark, "Dorothy, you
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― Roosevelt In Retrospect: A Profile in History
― Roosevelt In Retrospect: A Profile in History
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It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.
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