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In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.

Calvin Coolidge

The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Giving Help Himself
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
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Citizenship Law Rule
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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Direction Hard Work Knowledge Maturity Simplicity Wisdom
It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness.
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Difficult Greatness Men
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn’t have any more.
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Feeling Law Myself
The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
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Country Evil Goodness
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
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Accomplishment Effort Generosity People
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
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Death Democracy Feeling Himself Institution Leadership Men Ourselves Spirit
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.
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Art End Government Mean Politics
If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible.
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Democracy Faith Greatness Hope Humanity Religious
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal

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