"We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings."
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"By acting as if I was not afraid, I gradually ceased to be afraid."
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"The highest form of success comes to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who, out of these, wins the splendid ultimate triumph."
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"At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies."
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"There is apt to be a lunatic fringe among the votaries of any forward movement."
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"The Welfare of Each of Us Is Dependent Fundamentally Upon the Welfare of All of Us"
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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 chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character."
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"For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out."
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"Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth."
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"The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government."
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"I can no more explain why I like "natural history" than why I like California canned peaches; nor why I do not care for that enormous brand of natural history which deals with invertebrates any more than why I do not care for brandied peaches. All I can say is that almost as soon as I began to read at all I began to like to read about the natural history of beasts and birds and the more formidable or interesting reptiles and fishes."
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"I have always said I would not have been President had it not been for my experience in North Dakota."
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"I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life."
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"Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if we cannot attain all at one leap, we must advance towards it step by step, reasonably content so long as we do actually make some progress in the right direction."
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"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!"
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"There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel."
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"The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats."
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"Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal."
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"The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible and inhuman. The rude, fierce settler who drives the savage from the land lays all civilized mankind under a debt to him. ...[I]t is of incalculable importance that America, Australia, and Siberia should pass out of the hands of their red, black, and yellow aboriginal owners, and become the heritage of the dominant world races."
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