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" You can't know too much, but you can say too much. "

Calvin Coolidge

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" No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. "

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" We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight. "

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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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" No man ever listened himself out of a job. "

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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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" We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again. "

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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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" 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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