Quote by Theodore Roosevelt
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible gover

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. – Theodore Roosevelt

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It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things. – Theodore Roosevelt

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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. – Theodore Roosevelt

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The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. – Wilhelm Reich

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The universities have got a job here as well in making sure that people actually understand that were open for university students coming into the U.K. Theres a job here not just for the government, I think theres a job for the universities as well to make sure that people know that we are open. – Theresa May

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Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it. – Richard Lamm

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The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery. – Thomas Jefferson

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And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods. – Samuel Butler

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The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life. – Hannah Arendt

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I certainly wasnt happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you cant earn, and cant keep, and often dont even recognize at the time I mean joy. – Ursula K. Le Guin

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By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication. – Ralph Ellison

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