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Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things.

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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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Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology.
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Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
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Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting but never hit soft.
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Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wildlife and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method.
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There never has been devised, and there never will be devised, any law which will enable a man to succeed save by the exercise of those qualities which have always been the prerequisites of success - the qualities of hard work, of keen intelligence, of unflinching will.
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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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I believe in corporations. They are indispensable instruments of our modern civilization. But I believe they should be so regulated that they shall act for the interests of the community as a whole.
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Not trying is the surest way of achieving nothing at all.
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Americanism is a question of spirit, of conviction and purpose, not creed or birthplaces. The test of our worth is the service we render.
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My power vanishes into thin air the instant that my fellow citizens, who are straight and honest, cease to believe that I represent them and fight for what is straight and honest. That is all the strength that I have.
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We fight in honourable fashion for the good of mankind fearless of the future, unheeding of our individual fates, with unflinching hearts and undimmed eyes we stand at Armageddon, and we battle for the Lord
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The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books
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What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.
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My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.
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Speak softly, I'm getting my massage.
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Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
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Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.
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Gradually the true Mason gains experience in using these working tools and can observe subtler and subtler indications of personal flaws.
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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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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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