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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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There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.
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...I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.
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The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
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A man is not as big as his belief in himself he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.
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Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with other men's thoughts is to have no thoughts of one's own.
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The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.
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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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We didn't have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren't counted as human beings.
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Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant but it has not freed us from ourselves.
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Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
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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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The object of love is to serve, not to win
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This is history written in lightning.
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Genius is divine perseverance. Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
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