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One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called weasel words.
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 behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
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The wolf is the arch type of ravin, the beast of waste and desolation.
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It's not having been in the Dark House, but having left it that counts.
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We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.
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