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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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Nowadays the field naturalist-who is usually at all points superior to the mere closet naturalist-follows a profession as full of hazard and interest as that of the explorer or of the big-game hunter in the remote wilderness.
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The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of helping others in the only way which every ultimately does great god, that is, of helping them to help themselves.
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The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.
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The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done that go to make up a truly successful and good life.
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If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves.
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It is better to be faithful than famous.
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It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.
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Mother went off for three days to New York and Mame and Quentin took instant advantage of her absence to fall sick. Quentin's sickness was surely due to a riot in candy and ice-cream with chocolate sauce.
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The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.
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No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.
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Conservation of our resources is the fundamental question before this nation, and that our first and greatest task is to set our house in order and begin to live within our means.
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We shall make mistakes and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.
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There is no effort without error or shortcoming.
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Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities.
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I do not believe there ever was any life more attractive to a vigorous young fellow than life on a cattle ranch in those days. It was a fine, healthy life, too it taught a man self-reliance, hardihood, and the value of instant decision...I enjoyed the life to the full.
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When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
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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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A leader is an average, everyday person who is highly motivated.
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McKinley has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair.
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The hardest lessons to learn are those that are the most obvious.
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