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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.

Woodrow Wilson

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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Close Dreams Luxury Philosophy Thinking
A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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Himself Important Man
The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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Consist Duty Ideal Name Role
A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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Conservation Hands Himself Object People Reaction
We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
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Class Difficult Education Liberty Manual Necessary Person Society Task
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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Democracy King Myself
Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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Act Action Life Thinking
Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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Device Future Greatness Save
What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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Direction Machine Party Person Vote
Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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Action Declaration Liberty Right Translation
Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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Avoid Believe Corruption Government Place Public Secret Thrive
We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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Act Born Growth World
Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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Capacity Cooperation Gift Leadership Power
We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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Act Body Politics Regard Socialist
Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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Help Level Prosperity Suffering
We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
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Happiness Noble Proud Reason Record

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