"Imagination rules the world."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on imagination
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"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on control
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"Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on impossibility
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"A leader is a dealer in hope."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on leadership
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"Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on mothers   

"The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on conflict
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"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives."

Roosevelt, Theodore on leadership
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"It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things."

Roosevelt, Theodore on labor
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"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life."

Roosevelt, Theodore on america
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"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort."

Roosevelt, Theodore on failure
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"It is better to be faithful than famous."

Roosevelt, Theodore on loyalty
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"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency."

Roosevelt, Theodore on expediency
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"No man is above the law, and no man is below it."

Roosevelt, Theodore on equality
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"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

Roosevelt, Theodore on education
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"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."

Roosevelt, Theodore on education
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"At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies."

Roosevelt, Theodore on evil
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"In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

Roosevelt, Theodore on decisions
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"Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past."

Roosevelt, Theodore on effort
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"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything"

Roosevelt, Theodore on mistakes
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"The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats."

Roosevelt, Theodore on failure
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"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on curiosity
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"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on life
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"The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on life
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"Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on leadership
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"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on inferiority
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"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on gossip
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"Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on friends and friendship
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"I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on fear
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"The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer."

Roosevelt, Theodore on peace
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"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have."

Roosevelt, Theodore on patriotism
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"Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use."

Bacon, Francis on opposition   

"Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral."

Bacon, Francis on nudity   

"Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is."

Bacon, Francis on humor
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"The worst solitude is to have no real friendships."

Bacon, Francis on friends and friendship
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"Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less."

Bacon, Francis on friends and friendship
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"Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much."

Bacon, Francis on power
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"It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self."

Bacon, Francis on power
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"Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much."

Bacon, Francis on questions
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"The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands."

Bacon, Francis on responsibility
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"Science is but an image of the truth."

Bacon, Francis on science
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