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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

Woodrow Wilson

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
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
Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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Condition Identity Leadership Reason
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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Business Empty God Life National Spiritual Stomach Worship
It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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Nation Training War
When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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Care Growth Man Myself Observation
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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Conscience Dog Examination Face Home Yourself
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
It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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Born Hard Leadership Palace
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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Ideal Identity Nation People Time World
If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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Color Mistake Myself People Vote
The right is more precious than peace.
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Peace Precious Right
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
When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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God Happiness Heart Reading Word Yourself
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
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

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