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.
WOODROW WILSONWe grow by our dreams.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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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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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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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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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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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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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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