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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

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
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
America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Character Men Problem Woman
If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government. The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.
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Citizenship Failure Government People
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
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
American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
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Change Ideal Understand
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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Giving Help Himself
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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Country Potential Vision
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
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
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Harm History Myself Silence
The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.
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Danger Direction Economic Failure
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
You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
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Prosperity Success Yourself
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

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