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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

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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Difference Time Tragedy Unknown
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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Day Lose Myself Reason Win
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
We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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Beat Death Fight Live
Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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Man Pay Penalty Refuse Virtue
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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Big Dreams Greatness Growth Inspirational Man
Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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Character Daily Friendship Greatness
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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Heart Loyalty Myself Principle Sacrifice
The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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Man Mindset Oneself Reading Thinking
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
The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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Enterprise Greatness Man Vision Willing
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
When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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Children Heat Light
The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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Desire Peace Spiritual
A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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Action Goodness Herself Himself Humble Mistake
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

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