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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

Woodrow Wilson

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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Friendship Fruit Growth Understand
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Inspirational Man Stream Strength
A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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Himself Important Man
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
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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Big Dreams Greatness Growth Inspirational Man
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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Borrow Brain Myself
We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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Beat Death Fight Live
The seed of revolution is repression.
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One Liner Oppression Revolution
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
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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Myself Preparation Ready Time
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
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
Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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Character Daily Friendship Greatness
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
Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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Breed Hungry Impossible Life Mad Order Reform
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

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