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Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today.... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.
William Allen White
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William Allen White
Age: 75 †
Born: 1868
Born: February 10
Died: 1944
Died: January 31
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My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.
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Peace without justice is tyranny
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Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
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We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence.
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You can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the people -- and, alas, their folly with it. But if there is freedom, folly will die of its own poison, and the wisdom will survive.
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Never use the word, 'very.' It is the weakest word in the English language doesn't mean anything. If you feel the urge of 'very' coming on, just write the word, 'damn,' in the place of 'very.' The editor will strike out the word, 'damn,' and you will have a good sentence.
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Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.
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Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.
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I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.
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Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.
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Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right.
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Dip your pen into your arteries and write.
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We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.
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The facts fairly and honestly presented truth will take care of itself.
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