Theodore Roosevelt Quotes, People Quotes, Age Quotes

Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail.

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Mud can make you prisoner and the plains can make you dry. Snow can burn your eyes but only people make you cry.

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Where the way is hardest, there go thou; Follow your own path and let people talk.

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People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

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Ours is the "land of the free"-nobody denies that-nobody challenges it. (Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.)

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The reason we're governing right now is because we defeated moderate Republicans with moderate Democrats. And people need to be patient about that and realize that compromise is not evil.

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The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.

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The very highest is barely known. Then comes that which people know and love, Then that which is feared, Then that which is despised. Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.

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Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.

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I am not a positivist. Positivism states that what cannot be observed does not exist. This conception is scientifically indefensible, for it is impossible to make valid affirmations of what people 'can' or 'cannot' observe. One would have to say 'only what we observe exists,' which is obviously false.

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No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.

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Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.

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What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's.

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We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a great British nation standing up before all the world; for such a nation, rising in its ancient vigour, can even at this hour save civilization.

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America is the largest investor in the technologies necessary to be able to say to people, 'You can grow your economy so people's standard of living can improve, and at the same time be good stewards of the environment'.

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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That's why it's important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are

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And I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can't ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won't stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you'd be surprised that people say, "Can I be of help?"

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People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.

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Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.

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There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

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