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Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.


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The Q...
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TOM ALTHOUSE Each day before the end of eve
she sought her lover, nor would him leave,
until the stars ...
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Percy had no intention of doing that.
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GINA GREENLEE The gift of writing; natural flow of thoughts from the deepest heart.
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Help us to choose love over our reputation.
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT I am among those Americans whose ancestors include men and women from many different European countr...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 % Americani...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.
THEODORE ROETHKE Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stoc...
THEODORE PARKER The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all priz...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born...
THEODORE PARKER Ninety percent of everything is crap.
THEODORE STURGEON Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an A...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where th...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Clown and guru are a single identity: the satiric and sublime side of the same higher vision of lif...
THEODORE ROZAK The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Remorse is the pain of sin.
THEODORE PARKER Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
THEODORE PARKER The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of he...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT [America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we wer...
THEODORE PARKER My hat is in the ring.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he should be able and willing...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they k...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood—the virt...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square dea...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure,...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure t...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the hist...
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