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Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
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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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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You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress is freedom of utterance in danger? Only when free utterance is suppressed is it needed, and when it is needed it is most vital to justice.
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Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.
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A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.
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There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.
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The more riots that come out of our college campuses, the better the world for tomorrow.
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Peace without justice is tyranny
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Every one expects to go further than his father went every one expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart - to exceed all the other generations of the past in all the things that make life worth living.
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Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.
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I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.
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I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.
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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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In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.
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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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Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
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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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My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.
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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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Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
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The facts fairly and honestly presented truth will take care of itself.
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