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Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.

Calvin Coolidge

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
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Appearance Civilization Nation
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
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
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Himself Learning Lesson Oneself Word
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
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Deep Liberty
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
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Beyond Creation Equality Government Men Power Progress Right
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
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
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
Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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Thinking Yourself
No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil.
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End Pay People Rich Talk
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
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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Dissappear Politics Trouble
A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
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Determination Force Reason

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