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William Allen White
Age: 75 †
Born: 1868
Born: February 10
Died: 1944
Died: January 31
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Peace without justice is tyranny
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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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In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.
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I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.
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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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Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
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Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.
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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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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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I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.
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Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
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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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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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Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.
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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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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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The facts fairly and honestly presented truth will take care of itself.
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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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A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.
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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