"Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life."

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Source : Douglas MacArthur, Edward T. Imparato (2001). “General MacArthur: Wisdom and Visions”, p.22, Turner Publishing Company

Theodore Roosevelt

#History Quotes #Joy Quotes #Fit Quotes

“Jackson Rathbone—he is a prankster. Constantly scaring people from behind, stuff like that.”
“The most innocent man, pressed by the awful solemnities of public accusation and trial, many be incapable of supporting his own cause. He may be utterly unfit to cross-examine the witnesses against him, to point out the contradictions or defects of their testimony. And to counteract it by properly introducing it and applying his own.”
“I never get bored of a workout, because I feel great after a session.”
“... family and friends aren't always ready to make the journey when you are, and you just have to keep plowing along whether they have confidence in you or not. That can be very lonely.”
“God has been with me in my whole career.”
“If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would have been executed without hesitation by the ministers of open violence or of specious injustice. The caution, the delay, the difficulty with which he proceeded in the condemnation and punishment of a popular bishop, discovered to the world that the privileges of the church had already revived a sense of order and freedom in the Roman government.”
“There is this miraculous thing I heard Hugh Grant talking about - the thing about screen acting is that you can read people's thoughts. You are trying to register something inside and usually the eyes in cinema are where you will register that.”
“In the light of absolute values (religious or ethical) man himself is judged to be limited or imperfect, while he can occasionally accomplish acts which partake of perfection, he, himself can never be perfect.”

Source : "Speculations: Essays on Humanism and the Philosophy of Art". Book by T. E. Hulme, 1924.

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