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“I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.”
― The Strenuous Life, Essays and Addresses
― The Strenuous Life, Essays and Addresses
“NUTS! (In response to demands to surrender Bastogne, Belgium during WWII.)”
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“The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.”
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“After all, no one is stupid enough to prefer war to peace; in peace sons bury their fathers and in war fathers bury their sons.”
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“The most hateful grief of all human griefs is this, to have knowledge of the truth but no power over the event.”
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