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The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.
Herbert Hoover
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Herbert Hoover
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: August 10
Died: 1964
Died: October 20
31St U.S. President
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Iowa
Herbert Clark Hoover
Herbert C. Hoover
President Hoover
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If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated, and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would vanish.
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Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.
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Many women are now holding posts of grave responsibility in city and country and state and nation, and their number must be greatly increased.
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