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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt
Age: 60 †
Born: 1858
Born: October 27
Died: 1919
Died: January 6
26Th U.S. President
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The vice of envy is not only a dangerous, but a mean vice for it is always a confession of inferiority. It may promote conduct which will be fruitful of wrong to others, and it must cause misery to the man who feels it.
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In foreign affairs we must make up our minds that whether we wish it or not, we are a great people and must play a great part in the world. It is not open to us to choose whether we will play that great part or not.
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No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
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Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character.
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Whatever it is, handle it so that your children's children will get the benefit of it.
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The worst thing I can do is nothing.
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Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience.
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The settler and pioneer have at bottom had justice on their side this great continent could not have been kept as nothing but a game preserve for squalid savages.
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I have now run up against an ugly snag, the Sunday Excise Law. It is altogether too strict, but I have no honorable alternative save to enforce it and I am enforcing it, to the furious rage of the saloon keepers, and of many good people too for which I am sorry.
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A healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean, vigorous, healthy lives when the children are so trained that they shall endeavor, not to shirk difficulties, but to overcome them not to seek ease, but to know how to wrest triumph from toil and risk.
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Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
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The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.
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When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished.
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Where a trust becomes a monopoly the state has an immediate right to interfere.
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He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.
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There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.
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I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had even more.
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There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.
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Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.
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