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There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.
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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It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.
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Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.
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We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage.
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Courage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don't have the strength. Industry and determination can do anything that genius and advantage can do and many things that they cannot.
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When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all.
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With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong.
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Where a trust becomes a monopoly the state has an immediate right to interfere.
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Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
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The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.
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Every expansion of civilization makes for peace. In other words, every expansion of a great civilized power means a victory for law, order, and righteousness. ...It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.
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Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.
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