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One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.

Calvin Coolidge

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
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Legal Liberty Necessary Robbery
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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Human Live Patriot Politics Priviledge Race
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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Effort Growth Intellectual Work
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
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Ability Disappointment Givie Up Success
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
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Commitment Dedication Intelligence Missing Passion Persistence Talent
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
There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.
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Deal Education Greatness Men Science
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Desire Destiny Men
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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Business Improvement Present
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
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Harm History Myself Silence
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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Intellectual Philosophy Spiritual Vision

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