Teddy Roosevelt: “The material counts for nothing if you do not build upon it the…”

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The material counts for nothing if you do not build upon it the spiritual, if you do not build upon it the things of the soul, of the mind.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt asserts that material resources alone are insufficient without spiritual and intellectual development.

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