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You don’t have to explain something you never said.

Calvin Coolidge

Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
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
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
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Effort Freedom Greatness Price
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
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
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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Freedom Important Independent Money Quite
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
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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Responsibility Right Simplicity
This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
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Country Government Opportunity
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
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
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Desire Destiny Men
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
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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