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" All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. "
Calvin Coolidge
Work
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" The business of America is business. "
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" Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still. "
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" If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress. "
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" Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. "
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" Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing. "
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" There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means. "
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" To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race. "
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" Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you. "
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" They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves. "
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" In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you. "
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" One with the law is a majority. "
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" The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct. "
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" The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise. "
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" After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world. "
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" We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. "
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" Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House. "
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" You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me. "
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" Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. "
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