"Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

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“I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there...”

Source : "The World and the Book: A Study of Modern Fiction". Book by Gabriel Josipovici, 1971.
“We need to have an honest conversation about the policies that are generating opportunity and prosperity.”

Source : "Libre Initiative Spreads Free Market Ideology To Latino Voters". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 13, 2016.
“... all my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive!”
“You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.”

Source : John Kennedy Toole (1987). “A Confederacy of Dunces”
“If you are anxious about a business deal or worried about your job, you are seeing failure as a possibility. And having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means of realization of the end. It is a shocking truth we should never forget.”
“Let us keep the discoveries and indisputable measurements of physics. But ... A more complete study of the movements of the world will oblige us, little by little, to turn it upside down; in other words, to discover that if things hold and hold together, it is only by reason of complexity, from above.”
“As long as the enemy fights he must be beaten relentlessly, but a defeated enemy and especially the civilian population must be treated generously.”

Source : "Yesterday and Today, 1917-1967: Contemporaries Report on the Progress of German Soviet Friendship". Published by Verlag Zeit im Bild and Agentsvo pechati "Novosti", 1967.

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