“Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Considerations by the Way
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
“I'm not running for president to be somebody, but to do something; to do the hard but necessary things not the easy and needless things.”
Senator McCain's announcement speech for his 2008 presidential bid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain_presidential_campaign,_2008 (25 April 2007) <br class="br">Full text of the speech can be found here on The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/25/us/politics/26mccain_text.html <br class="br">2000s, 2007
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