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

Woodrow Wilson

High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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Important Society Stop Work
There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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Cooperation Man Play Servant Time
As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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Division Experience Fact Irresponsible Power
We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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Beat Death Fight Live
Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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Action Appearance Expression Suggestion
I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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Book Man Myself Possible Reading Talk Writing
We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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Division End Interest Purpose Separate Stand Togetherness
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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Counseling Heat Judgment Light
Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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Opportunity Responsibility
The seed of revolution is repression.
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One Liner Oppression Revolution
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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Heart Loyalty Myself Principle Sacrifice
I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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Believe Exercise Greatness Myself Peace Profession Stand
A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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Defeat Himself Man Success
The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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Economics Greatness Heart System Trap Truth
There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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Brain Head Ideas Shine
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
You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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Ancient Liberty Native Plant Safety Tears
A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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Himself Important Man
It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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Balance Carry Closet Fear Greatness Heart Peace People Terrible
No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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Himself Hood Man Rise Service Spiritual
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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Country Patriot People
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Inspirational Man Stream Strength
I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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Education Literacy Lost Sound Start Yourself
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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Conservation Lazy Thinking
Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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Accomplishment Defeat Order System
Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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Growth Heart Justice Power Resistance Soil Spirit
To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
WOODROW WILSON

Day Save Thinking Way

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