"We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom, the strength, and the courage and the virtue to do them. But we must face facts as they are. We must neither surrender ourselves to a foolish optimism, nor succumb to a timid and ignoble pessimism."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

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“I think we've put ourselves in a position that if we can go into the Big East and compete at the level that we aspire to compete at, we'll get out of this what we want.”
“June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.”
“Learn to love humility, for it will cover all your sins. All sins are repulsive before God, but the most repulsive of all is pride of the heart. Do not consider yourself learned and wise; otherwise, all your efforts will be destroyed, and your boat will reach the harbor empty. If you have great authority, do not threaten anyone with death. Know that, according to nature, you too are susceptible to death, and that every soul sheds its body as its final garment.”
“If you scratch through the deceitful artifice of contemporary photography, you'll find the real artifice underneath.”
“I love pushing my boundaries and seeing how far I can go without, you know, dying or injuring myself too badly.”

Source : "Q&A: Spencer Grammer on Being TV's Unlikeliest Sexy Detective". Interview with Matthew Kitchen, www.esquire.com. October 9, 2010.
“So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration”
“If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.”

Source : Statement to House of Commons: Declaration of War with Germany, August 4, 1914.
“The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.”

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