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• We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood.
  We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done....
• It takes some work to lose weight, or to use the power of positive shrinking.
• We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtue
  without courage, the other virtues are useless. -- Edward Abbey...
• It is only through labor and effort, by energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
  -- Theodore Roosevelt, former U.S. Preside...
• We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face .
  .. we must do that which we think we cannot. -- Roosevelt, Eleanor (1884-1962)...
• All power corrupts, but we need electricity.
• Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted to rhetoric.
  If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk, we must act big....