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"A set of huge marble busts stared smugly down from on high: great merchants and financiers of Styrian history, by the look of them. Criminals made heroes by colossal success."

"No matter was the professional talkers tell you, I never met a black boy who wanted to fail."

"I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated."

"Gravity is no match against one who is determined to reach the stars."

"Don't waste your life on small dreams. Give yourself permission to dream big."

"We all do have a vision in life and we all wish to achieve something in life. We all ought to note that vision is there for everyone but, achievement is there for someone!"
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"I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life."


"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country."


"The President and the Congress are all very well in their way. They can say what they think they think, but it rests with the Supreme Court to decide what they have really thought."


"It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object."


"The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others."


"Indeed, it is a sign of marked political weakness in anycommonwealth if the people tend to be carried away by mere oratory, if theytend to value words in and for themselves, as divorced from the deeds for whichthey are supposed to stand. The phrase-maker, the phrase-monger, the readytalker, however great his power, whose speech does not make for courage,sobriety, and right understanding, is simply a noxious element in the bodypolitic, and it speaks ill for the public if he has influence over them. To admirethe gift of oratory without regard to the moral quality behind the gift is to dowrong to the republic."


"The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books."


"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public."
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