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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

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
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Deep Peace Strength Strong Weakness
You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Prosperity Success Yourself
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
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Harm History Myself Silence
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
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America Divine Human Man Purpose
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
We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
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Charity Honor Ideal Peace
Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Character Goodness Government Money
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
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
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Politics Property Right
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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Government Ideal
The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together. The general welfare cannot be provided for in any one act, but it is well to remember that the benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.
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