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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
Work
Eleanor Roosevelt

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Failure
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Freedom
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
Leaders and Leadership
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
Power
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.
Strength
Theodore Roosevelt

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I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
Averages
Theodore Roosevelt

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I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
Dedication
Theodore Roosevelt

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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Uncategorised
Theodore Roosevelt

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Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
Uncategorised
Theodore Roosevelt

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.
Excellence
Richard Rorty

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What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
Words
Earl of Roscommon

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
Action
Percy Ross

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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
Beauty
Jean Rostand

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I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
Understanding
Jean Rostand

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The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
Ideals and Idealism
Jean Rostand

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.
Success
Charles B. Rouss

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Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Truth
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
Fame
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Gratitude
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.
Uniqueness
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.
Confession
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.
Goodness
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Patience
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
Repentance
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun