#cause

The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic. ↗

— Sally Ride

#because #dramatic #during #just #just because

Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship. ↗

— Laura Riding

#already #art #because #called #easiest

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#because #cannot #else #friends #friendship

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing. ↗

— Missy Elliot

#copy #feel #hear #hot #i

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#deficits #discovered #forget #future #i

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#brief #brief moment #change #comes #embodiment

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#better #checkered #dare #defeat #enjoy

Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice. ↗

— Elihu Root

#cause #honest #honest people #injustice #justice

To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism. ↗

— Elihu Root

#begin #causes #civilization #deal #extent

Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot. ↗

— Elihu Root

#get #lincoln #men #ought #out