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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

Calvin Coolidge

Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Desire Destiny Men
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
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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Funny Humor Law Myself People
I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.
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Myself People Want
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Cold Employment
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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Character Creation Self Wealth
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 is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.
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Healing Man Mindset Nature Spirit Strength Tree
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Ambition Effort Time
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
The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.
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Beyond Collection Doubt Reward
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Harm History Myself Silence
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
Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.
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Important Oneself Reality

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

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