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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.

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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I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.
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I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it two, when you have it. The third kick it when you give it away - and it is the biggest kick of all.
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The more riots that come out of our college campuses, the better the world for tomorrow.
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Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.
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My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.
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Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.
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There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.
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In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.
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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 talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker.
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If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.
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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.
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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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From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership . He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.
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If our colleges and universities do not breed men who riot, who rebel, who attack life with all the youthful vim and vigor, then there is something wrong with our colleges. The more riots that come on college campuses, the better world for tomorrow.
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Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
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Dip your pen into your arteries and write.
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The facts fairly and honestly presented truth will take care of itself.
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I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.
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As a matter of fact student riots of one sort or another, protests against the order that is, kicks against college and university management indicate a healthy growth and a normal functioning of the academic mind.
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