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Ornithologist Inspirational Quotes (796)

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Style supposes the reunion and the exercise of all the intellectual faculties. The style is the man.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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The mass of the American people are most emphatically not in the deplorable condition of which you speak.
Theodore Roosevelt
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No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Toward all other nations, large and small, our attitude must be one of cordial and sincere friendship. We must show not only in our words, but in our deeds, that we are earnestly desirous of securing their good will by acting toward them in a spirit of just and generous recognition of all their rights.
Theodore Roosevelt
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After a Christmas comes a Lent.
John Ray
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The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.
John Ray
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And it is through strife and the readiness for strife that a man or a nation must win greatness. So, let the world know that we are here and willing to pour out our blood, our treasure, our tears. And that America is ready and if need be desirous of battle
Theodore Roosevelt
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The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.
Theodore Roosevelt
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All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law
Theodore Roosevelt
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Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.
Junius
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There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Botany is based on fixed genera.
Carl Linnaeus
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TThe most effective way to save the threatened and decimated natural world is to cause people to fall in love with it again, with its beauty and its reality.
Peter Scott
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Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
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A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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Those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life brings us nothing better than swollen fortunes for the few and the triumph in both politics and business of a sordid and selfish materialism.
Theodore Roosevelt
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My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.
Olivier Messiaen
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The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
Theodore Roosevelt
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There is no reason why people should not call themselves Cubists, or Octagonists, or Parallelopipedonists, orKnights oftheIsoscelesTriangle, or Brothers of the Cosine, if they so desire as expressing anything serious and permanent, one term is as fatuous as another.
Theodore Roosevelt
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To permit every lawless capitalist, every law-defying corporation, to take any action, no matter how iniquitous, in the effort to secure an improper profit and to build up privilege, would be ruinous to the Republic and would mark the abandonment of the effort to secure in the industrial world the spirit of democratic fair dealing.
Theodore Roosevelt
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It is not the critic who counts
Theodore Roosevelt
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There was an Old Man of Columbia, Who was thirsty, and called out for some beer But they brought it quite hot, in a small copper pot, Which disgusted that Man of Columbia.
Edward Lear
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A vile beastly rottenheaded foolbegotten brazenthroated pernicous piggish screaming, tearing, roaring, perplexing, splitmecrackle crashmecriggle insane ass of a woman is practising howling below-stairs with a brute of a singingmaster so horribly, that my head is nearly off.
Edward Lear
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