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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?

Woodrow Wilson

Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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Act Action Life Thinking
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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Caution Reason Secret Selfish
It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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Curiosity Learning Object Satisfaction
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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Emotion Flag History
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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Leadership People Ring Voice
High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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Important Society Stop Work
I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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Education Literacy Lost Sound Start Yourself
Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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Help Level Prosperity Suffering
No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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Enterprise Hope Man Realization See Vision
Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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Accomplishment Defeat Order System
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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Difference Time Tragedy Unknown
I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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Believe Exercise Greatness Myself Peace Profession Stand
The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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Enterprise Greatness Man Vision Willing
The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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Counseling Democracy Man Purpose Understand
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
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Achievement Forget Greatness Hope Live Mistake Order Vision World Yourself
A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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Action Goodness Herself Himself Humble Mistake

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