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The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors.
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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Herbert Clark Hoover
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The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all laws.
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I suppose I could have called in the whole of the Army, but what was the use? All I had to do was call in Main Street itself.
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When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.
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The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists they're too damn greedy.
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Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.
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Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
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Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust.
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Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.
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The people have a vital interest in the conservation of their natural resources in the prevention of wasteful practices.
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