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Rather Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
- We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as…
- A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at…
- Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
- A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare to be great;…
- I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers…
- The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not only…
- We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the…
- 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…
- I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all…
- We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage. For us is the life of…
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- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further… — Neil Armstrong
- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov