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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 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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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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The facts fairly and honestly presented truth will take care of itself.
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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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Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.
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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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Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
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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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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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The talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker.
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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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Peace without justice is tyranny
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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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...if ever the sun rises upon Barbecue, its flavor vanishes like Cinderella's silks, and it becomes cold baked beef - staler in the chill dawn than illicit love.
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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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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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In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.
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Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.
William Allen White
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
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I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.
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