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There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.
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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What is at the heart of all national problems? It is that we have seen the hand of material interest sometimes about to close upon our dearest rights and possessions.
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If you would be a leader of men, you must lead your own generation, not the next.
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The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint.
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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'
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Have you thought of the sufferings of Armenia? You poured out your money to help succor the Armenians after they suffered now set your strength so that they shall never suffer again.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is safer than theirs. We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves drank.
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There is no indispensable man.
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The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.
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Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.
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Movies are like writing history with lightning.
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Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
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Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.
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Some of the greatest and most lasting effects of genuine oratory have gone forth from secluded lecture desks into the hearts of quiet groups of students.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over which they are set, and may thus be said to possess the souls of poets at the same time they display the coarser sense and the more vulgar sagacity of practical men of business.
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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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