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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
Woodrow Wilson
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Woodrow Wilson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1856
Born: December 28
Died: 1924
Died: February 23
28Th U.S. President
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It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily it is ideas. Ideas live men die.
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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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I am so glad that I am young, so that I may give my youth to you.
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There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.
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