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You can't choose your potential, but you can choose to fulfill it.
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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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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Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.
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To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.
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Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.
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Rattlesnakes are only too plentiful everywhere along the river bottoms, in the broken, hilly ground, and on the prairies and the great desert wastes alike...If it can it will get out of the way, and only coils up in its attitude of defence when it believes that it is actually menaced.
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Every person who invests in well-selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method of becoming independent, for real estate is the basis of wealth.
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The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.
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It is not the critic who counts
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I do not believe there was ever a life more attractive than life on a cattle farm.
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