"Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it."
-Theodore Roosevelt
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"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.“
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"When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all."
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"I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man."
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"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things."
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"I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being."
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"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
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