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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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The Union has become not merely a physical union of states, but rather a spiritual union in common ideals of our people. Within it is room for every variety of opinion, every possible experiment in social progress. Out of such variety comes growth, but only if we preserve and maintain our spiritual solidarity.
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Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.
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The more one observes, the more clearly does he see that it is in the soil of pure science that are found the origins of all our modern industry and commerce. In fact,our civilization is wholly built upon our scientific discoveries.
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American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, Am I my brother's keeper?
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We need to add to the three R's, namely Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic, a fourth--- RESPONSIBILITY.
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Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust.
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It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our history held faithful to an ideal. Here men endured that a nation might live.
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Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
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There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
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Governments know that the life of the world cannot be saved if the soul of the world is allowed to be lost.
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We supported the cooperative movement among farmers. The movement was still young and stubbornly opposed to the commercial distributors. I believed it to be one of the most helpful undertakings, for according to my social theories any organization run by citizens for their own welfare is preferable to the same action by the government.
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In the larger view the major forces of the depression now lie outside of the United States, and our recuperation has been retarded by the unwarranted degree of fear and apprehension created by these outside forces.
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Any practice of business which would dominate the country by its own selfish interest is a destruction of equality of opportunity. Government in business, except in emergency, is also a destruction of equal opportunity and the incarnation of tyranny through bureaucracy.
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American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism.
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Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
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All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them.
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There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom.
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