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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.

Woodrow Wilson

“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
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Bright Genius Myself Original Perseverance
It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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Curiosity Learning Object Satisfaction
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
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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Forget Rich Task World
If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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Character Health Lose Lost Wealth Yourself
A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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Defeat Himself Man Success
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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Freedom Liberty Love Myself Nation Rich
The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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Father Possible University Young
Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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Condition Identity Leadership Reason
If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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Character Devotion Himself Man People Thinking
We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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Ancestor Fine Ideal Man Person Unity
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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Live Rich World
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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History Liberty Resistance
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
War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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Affair Declare God Human War

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