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To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.
James A. Garfield
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James A. Garfield
Age: 49 †
Born: 1831
Born: November 19
Died: 1881
Died: September 19
20Th U.S. President
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James Abram Garfield
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Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification.
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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
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If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
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I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.
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