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Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth.

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The public must retain control of the great waterways. It is essential that any permit to obstruct them for reasons and on conditions that seem good at the moment should be subject to revision when changed conditions demand.

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When she (my mother) passed away, I kind of understood the commitment that she made to make sure that I could stay in skating. And I wanted to live up to whatever I could. Not so much win everything, but just to be the best that I could possibly be, to honor her memory and everything she went through to make sure that I was given the opportunities to be the best that I can be. Not to be a world champion or an Olympic gold medalist, but to be the best that I could be. And that was the most important thing that ever happened in my career.

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The general tendency towards an eight-hour working day has undoubtedly been healthful, and it is wise for the State to set a good example as an employer of labor, both as to the number of hours of labor exacted and as to paying a just and reasonable wage.

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If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.

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It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better.

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It is a wicked thing to be neutral between right and wrong.

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I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.

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It is no use to preach to [children] if you do not act decently yourself.

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What I am to be, I am becoming.

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There are those who believe that a new modernity demands a new morality. What they fail to consider is the harsh reality that there is no such thing as a new morality. There is only one morality . All else is immorality.

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The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world.

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It is of far more important that a man shall play something himself, even if he plays it badly, than that he shall go with hundreds of companions to see someone else play well.

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We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.

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You, the sons of the pioneers, if you are true to your ancestry, must make your lives as worthy as they made theirs. They sought for true success, and therefore they did not seek ease. They knew that success comes only to those who lead the life of endeavor

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Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity; but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled lake, and brawling brook are also necessary to the full and many-sided development of a fine race.

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Do Something Now. If not you, who? If not here, where? If not now, when?

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To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.

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No nation can be really great unless it is great in peace, in industry, integrity, honesty. Skilled intelligence in civic affairs and industrial enterprises alike; the special ability of the artist, the man of letters, the man of science, and the man of business; the rigid determination to wrong no man, and to stand for righteousness-all these are necessary in a great nation.

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The farmer is a poor creature who skins the land and leaves it worthless to his children. The farmer is a good farmer who, having enabled the land to support himself and to provide for the education of his children, leaves it to them a little better than he found it himself.

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