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| Remember the old saying, "Faint heart never won fair lady." |
| ~ Cervantes, Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. x. ~ |
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| One reason—perhaps the chief—of the virility of the Roosevelts is [their] very democratic spirit. They have never felt that because they were born in a good position they could put their hands in their pockets and succeed. They have felt, rather, that being born in a good position, there is no excuse for them if they did not do their duty by the community. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. From FDR’s sophomore honor’s thesis at Harvard. Nathan Miller, F.D.R.: An Intimate History, p. 33, Doubleday & Co. (1983). The Roosevelts on both the Republican and Democratic side of the family were raised in the tradition of noblesse oblige and FDR firmly believed in the concept of obligation to society. Eleanor Roosevelt explained her husband’s break with James Farley had less to do with politics than Farley’s fascination with the moneyed people he came to know and admire. “Jim and Betsy (Mrs. Farley) became more and more interested in social position while Franklin and I were concerned with social issues” (interview with Eleanor Roosevelt at Hyde Park, New York, Summer 1959). ~ |
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| The policy of this country is a canal under American control. The United States cannot consent to the surrender of this control to any European power.... The capital invested by corporations or citizens of other countries in such an enterprise must in a great degree look for protection to one or more of the great powers of the world. No European power can intervene for such protection without adopting measures on this continent which the United States would deem wholly inadmissible. If the protection of the United States is relied upon, The United States must exercise such control as will enable this country to protect its national interests.... An interoceanic canal across the American Isthmus ... would be the great ocean thoroughfare between our Atlantic and our Pacific shores, and virtually a part of the coastline of the United States. Our merely commercial interest in it is greater than that of all other countries, while its relations to our power and prosperity as a nation, to our means of defense, our unity, peace, and safety, are matters of paramount concern to the people of the United States. |
| ~ Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893), U.S. president. Messages and Papers of the Presidents, vol. X, pp. 4537-4538, ed. James D. Richardson, Bureau of National Literature, 20 vols. (1897-1918), Special Message (8 March 1880). Reacting to Ferdinand De Lesseps’s dream of a Panama Canal, Hayes anticipated Theodore Roosevelt’s corollary of the Monroe Doctrine. ~ |
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| But there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be. |
| ~ Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii. Stanza 70. ~ |
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| All beings fear punishment; all fear death. If you take yourself as the measure, you will never harm, you will never kill. |
| ~Punishment ~ |
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| So far as I am individually concerned, & independent of my pocket, it is my earnest desire to write those sort of books which are said to “fail.” |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. letter, Oct. 6, 1849, to his father-in-law, Lemuel Shaw. Correspondence, vol. 14, The Writings of Herman Melville, ed. Lynn Horth (1993). ~ |
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| The idea that our interactions with others actually help our own insight is quite interesting. In an intimate relationship, where love and attachment are mixed, it is difficult to say how this will help the individual who is practicing. In a case where there is attachment or clinging to another person, where the person is arising as a very strong object and the attachment is arising with a strong sense of "I" - "I love this person, I am grasping for this person" - if you see this as a false idea of self, you can have some insight into the notion of emptiness. |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, February 28, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
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