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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand

Woodrow Wilson

You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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Forget Rich Task World
There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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Brain Head Ideas Shine
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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Democracy Form Government Principle
The seed of revolution is repression.
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One Liner Oppression Revolution
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
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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History Liberty Resistance
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
Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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Act Action Life Thinking
Men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
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Man Pain Path Struggle World
At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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Crisis Life Salvation Thinking
The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
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Luxury Man Music National Need
Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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Close Dreams Luxury Philosophy Thinking
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
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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Book Man Myself Possible Reading Talk Writing
The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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Financial Mobile Stop Way
We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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Domination Freedom Government Majority Man Opinion Vote

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