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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Woodrow Wilson

To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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Day Save Thinking Way
As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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Division Experience Fact Irresponsible Power
The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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Desire Peace Spiritual
If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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Character Devotion Himself Man People Thinking
Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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God Life Perfection Trust Work
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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Conscience Dog Examination Face Home Yourself
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
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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Conservation Lazy Thinking
The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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Love Object Service Win
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
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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Myself Preparation Ready Time
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
A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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History Nation Past Remember Unknown
War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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Affair Declare God Human War
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
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

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