"It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself."
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Theodore Roosevelt, Citizenship in a Republic, a speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, France (23 April 1910)
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