"Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering."

Roosevelt, Theodore on Work
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""It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." Citizenship in a Republic - Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910"

Roosevelt, Theodore on Citizenship
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"Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on War
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"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything"

Roosevelt, Theodore on Mistakes
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"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."

Roosevelt, Theodore on Power
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"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft."

Roosevelt, Theodore on Strength
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"Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard."

Roosevelt, Theodore on Courage
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"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. "

Roosevelt, Theodore on Uncategorised
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"Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace. "

Roosevelt, Theodore on Uncategorised
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"No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the privilege of living in a free community. "

Roosevelt, Theodore on Uncategorised
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"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it."

Frost, Robert on Communication
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"The words of the world want to make sentences."

Bachelard, Gaston on Words
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"Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat."

Boyes, John F. on Anger
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"Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat."

Dickinson, Emily on Anger
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"Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight."

Diller, Phyllis on Anger
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"Its easy to be an angel when you are in heaven."

Unknown, Source on Angels
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"More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin."

Unknown, Source on Beginning
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"Have a good cry, wash out your heart. If you keep it inside it'll tear you apart. Sometimes you lose, but you're gonna win if you just hang in."

Hook, Dr. on Cries and Crying
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"Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead."

Williams, Tennessee on Suffering
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"We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal."

Williams, Tennessee on Suspicion
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"We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!"

Williams, Tennessee on Isolation
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"Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think."

Carnegie, Dale on Happiness
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"I honestly believed I would make it. I had the desire. A lot of people have the ability, but they don't put forth the effort."

Carter, Joe on Desire
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"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on Death and Dying
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"Death -- the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening."

Scott, Sir Walter on Death and Dying
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"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all."

Seneca on Death and Dying
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"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."

Sachs, A. on Death and Dying
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"Most people would rather die than think: many do."

Russell, Bertrand on Death and Dying
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"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."

Russell, Bertrand on Death and Dying
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"One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live."

Ruskin, John on Death and Dying
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"The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying."

Richter, Jean Paul on Death and Dying
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"Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion."

Thomas, Dylan on Death and Dying
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"To fear death is to misunderstand life."

Unknown, Source on Death and Dying
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"Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best."

Wolfe, Thomas on Death and Dying
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"If you do not develop the hunger and courage to pursue your goal, you will lose your nerve and you will give up on your dream."

Brown, Les on Desire
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"Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need."

Bachelard, Gaston on Desire
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"Listen to what you know instead of what you fear."

Bach, Richard on Desire
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"Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell."

Dickinson, Emily on Farewells
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"Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;"

Beecher, Henry Ward on Death and Dying
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"Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have."

Baldwin, James on Death and Dying
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