"In other words, character is far more important than intellect to the race as to the individual. We need intellect, and there is no reason why we should not have it together with character; but if we must choose between the two we choose character without a moment's hesitation."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

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“True happiness is when the love that is within us finds expression in external activities.”
“Any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed to him than his full status is a degradation and a waste.”

Source : Norbert Wiener (1950). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”
“I know no real worth but that tranquil firmness which seeks dangers by duty, and braves them without rashness.”

Source : François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.175
“I'm not quite HonorÃ© de Balzac, but I can't start without a strong espresso. After an hour and a half or so, I need another. Nothing else, mind, and certainly not alcohol. Can't imagine anything more ridiculous than drink-writing.”
“We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.”
“I've been very blessed. My parents always told me I could be anything I wanted. When you grow up in a household like that, you learn to believe in yourself.”

Source : Rita Rudner (1993). “Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature”, Penguin Group USA
“You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.”
“Little by little, I've reached the stage of using only a small number of forms and colors. It's not the first time that painting has been done with a very narrow range of colors. The frescoes of the tenth century are painted like this. For me, they are magnificent things.”

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