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Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.

Warren G. Harding

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Warren G. Harding
Age: 57 †
Born: 1865
Born: November 2
Died: 1923
Died: August 2
29Th U.S. President
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Blooming Grove
Ohio
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Warren Gamaliel Harding
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The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.
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I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.
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Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.
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I knew that this job would be too much for me.
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We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature.
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