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Ornithologist Inspirational Quotes (796)

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The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.
Theodore Roosevelt
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No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Butterflies are very interesting. Here these things are little grubs for a while. And then they go into a little coffin. There they are in a sarcophagus, and then they come out and dance with the angels.
Roger Tory Peterson
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The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone but without honesty the brave and able man is merely a civic wild beast who should be hunted down by every lover of righteousness. No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered.
Jared Diamond
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With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without attempting to kill them.
Jared Diamond
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This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Power always brings with it responsibility.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Jan 1899 You must aim at the Staff College, but for the love of God never become a professional Staff Officer. Never lose touch with the troops. Remember that you serve the troops and it is the troops who matter. They are the folk who win victories, take care of your men and they will never let you down.
Richard Meinertzhagen
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All for each, and each for all, is a good motto but only on condition that each works with might and main to so maintain himself as not to be a burden to others.
Theodore Roosevelt
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I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss.
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
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It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet.
Olivier Messiaen
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what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.
Mabel Osgood Wright
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He is wise that can make a friend of a foe.
John Ray
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It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.
Theodore Roosevelt
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But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were.
Peter Scott
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A typical vice of American politics the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with much sound and fury, and at the same time with a cautious accompaniment of weasel phrases each of which sucks the meat out of the preceding statement.
Theodore Roosevelt
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Great men show politeness in a particular way a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their avocations as if you were a member of the family.
John James Audubon
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According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another.
Ernst Mayr
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If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.
Theodore Roosevelt
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