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When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

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
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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Politics Yourself
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Character Destruction Prosperity
One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.
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Government Greatness People
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
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Explanation Silence
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
I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves
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Government People Rule
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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Control People Wild
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Forget Nation People War
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
Silence can never be misquoted.
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Silence Wrong
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
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Accomplishment Myself Politics
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Achievement Doubt
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Harm History Myself Silence
Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because. they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.
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Attention Important Men Problem Serious

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