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Yet there was no doubt that Theodore Roosevelt was peculiarly qualified to be President of all the people. Few, if any Americans could match the breadth of his intellect and the strength of his character. A random survey of his achievements might show him mastering German, French, and the contrasted dialects of Harvard and Dakota Territory; assembling fossil skeletons with paleontological skill; fighting for an amateur boxing championship; transcribing birdsong into a private system of phonetics; chasing boat thieves with a star on his breast and Tolstoy in his pocket; founding a finance club, a stockmen's association, and a hunting-conservation society; reading some twenty thousand books and writing fifteen of his own; climbing the Matterhorn; promulgating a flying machine; and becoming a world authority on North American game mammals. If the sum of all these facets of experience added up to more than a geometric whole - implying excess construction somewhere, planes piling upon planes - then only he, presumably, could view the polygon entire. ↗

— Edmund Morris

#teddy #theodore #experience

Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother's milk. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#comes #milk #mother #only #planet

It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law. ↗

— Pope Gregory VII

#blind eye #church #custom #discretion #eye

The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth. ↗

— Wilfred Grenfell

#others #our #pay #render #rent

The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another. ↗

— William Greider

#how #people #reflected #relate #treat

Celebrities become divas because they get pampered so much, babied so much - then they get used to it. ↗

— Adrian Grenier

#become #celebrities #divas #get #much

I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who's looking out into the world of celebrity obsession. ↗

— Adrian Grenier

#anybody #celebrity #deal #dealt #fame

When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them. ↗

— Wayne Gretzky

#bigger #faster #figure #had #i

I've become one of those annoying people who brings their own food on to planes. ↗

— Jessie Ware

#become #brings #food #i #own

I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly illuminated with a kind of mock sunset. This in a short time disappeared, to be soon succeeded by another similar in character, but more faint. ↗

— George Grey

#brilliantly #character #constantly #disappeared #eastern