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

Calvin Coolidge

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
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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Happiness Positive Run Thinking Yourself
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
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
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
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Government Need
What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
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Character Experience Men Resistance Temptation
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
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Government Justification
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Beginning Education Learning
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
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Good Woman Help Men
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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God Money Patriot Prosperity
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
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
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
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Commitment Dedication Intelligence Missing Passion Persistence Talent

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