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I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
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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Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.
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The chase is among the best of all national pastimes it cultivates that vigorous manliness for the lack of which in a nation, as in an individual, the possession of no other qualities can possibly atone.
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With great victory comes great sacrifice.
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We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom, the strength, and the courage and the virtue to do them. But we must face facts as they are. We must neither surrender ourselves to a foolish optimism, nor succumb to a timid and ignoble pessimism.
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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.
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The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
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More and more, as it becomes necessary to preserve the game, let us hope that the camera will largely supplant the rifle.
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Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it the men who form the lunatic fringe in all reform movements.
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... looked at from the standpoint of the ultimate result, there was little real difference to the Indian whether the land was taken by treaty or by war. ... No treaty could be satisfactory to the whites, no treaty served the needs of humanity and civilization, unless it gave the land to the Americans as unreservedly as any successful war.
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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.
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This broken country extends back from the river for many miles and has been called always be Indian, French voyager and American trappers alike, the Bad Lands.
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While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.
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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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Whatever it is, handle it so that your children's children will get the benefit of it.
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Don't foul, don't flinch-hit the line hard.
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Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.
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Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
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