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The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.

Calvin Coolidge

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
Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
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Patience Preparation Responsibility Teaching Training
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
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Prosperity Success Yourself
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
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Care Problem Simplicity
You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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Bills Goodness Important Man
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
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Government Liberty Necessary Order
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Giving Help Himself
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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Generosity Himself Leadership Life Motivational
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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Politics Yourself
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
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
The final solution for unemployment is work.
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Government Job Solution
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
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Citizenship Education Law

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