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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.

Woodrow Wilson

We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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Live Rich World
No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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Himself Knowledge Subject
One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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Divine Evidence Oneself Preach Survive
Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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God Life Perfection Trust Work
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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Goodness Greatness Human Religion Service Work
The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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Forget King Service Value
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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Company Enjoyment Friendship Myself Teaching
Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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Act Action Life Thinking
The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
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Darkness Light Ourselves Path Shadow True
If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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Color Mistake Myself People Vote
To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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Freedom Interest Man Necessary Wisdom
Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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Breed Hungry Impossible Life Mad Order Reform
The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.
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Leadership Nature Peace Reveal Salvation Source Spiritual
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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Big Dreams Greatness Growth Inspirational Man
Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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Move Progress Stand
Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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Action Document Government Independence Practical Program Theory

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