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You can't move so fast that you try to change [a situation] faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
You can't move so fast that you try to change [a situation] faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
Approximate author period: c. 1923 AD · modern
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- Eleanor Roosevelt
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- Approximate author period: c. 1923 AD · modern
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