"Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have."

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Robert Frost

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“The rapid growth of industry, the ever increasing population and the imperative need for more varied, wholesome and nourishing foodstuff makes it all the more necessary to exhaust every means at our command to fill the empty dinner pail, enrich our soils, bring greater wealth and influence to our beautiful South land, which is synonymous to a healthy, happy and contented people.”
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“We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.”
“Boldness, and again boldness, and always boldness!”

Source : Speech to Legislative Committee of General Defence, 2 Sept. 1792
“You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes.”
“All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumble and begin to poke around for rumors of another Messiah.”
“I'd say people that really inspired me at first were like, Dustin Hoffman, Jim Carrey... serious Jim Carrey though.”
“You must get courageous men, men of strong views and let them debate and argue with each other.”

Source : Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy (2012). “The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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