"It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready."
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"I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding"
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"One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words.'' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ''weasel word'' after another there is nothing left of the other."
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"...let men express the intense admiration, which I share with all other Americans, of the record made by the Marines."
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"Now and then we hear the wilder voices of the wilderness, from animals that in the hours of darkness do not fear the neighborhood of man: the coyotes wail like dismal ventriloquists, or the silence may be broken by the snorting and stamping of a deer."
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"In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world."
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"Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?"
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"The man who holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human welfare."
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"There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings."
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"Work hard at work worth doing."
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"Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping."
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"Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the penalty is national death, race death; a sin for which there is no atonement. No man, no woman, can shirk the primary duties of life, whether for love of ease and pleasure, or for any other cause, and retain his or her self-respect."
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"Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits-the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself."
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"With great victory comes great sacrifice."
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"It is necessary for the welfare of the nation that men's lives be based on the principles of the Bible. No man, educated or uneducated, can afford to be ignorant of the Bible."
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"I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened."
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"The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead."
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"We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time and energy to industrial occupations. The monetary equivalent of a living wage varies according to local conditions, but must include enough to secure the elements of a normal standard of living-a standard high enough to make morality possible, to provide for education and recreation, to care for immature members of the family, to maintain the family during periods of sickness, and to permit of reasonable saving for old age."
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"There are rainy days in autumn and stormy days in winter when the rocking chair in front of the fire simply demands an accompanying book."
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"Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures."
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