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A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life.
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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The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
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...men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
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No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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They lived long that have lived well.
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The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document. It is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age. Its prescriptions are clear and we know what they arebut life is always your last and most authoritative critic.
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There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.
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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto.
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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.
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The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.
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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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If Freud had worn a kilt in the prescribed Highland manner he might have had a very different attitude to genitals.
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Liberty is its own reward.
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I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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