David Starr Jordan Quotes

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• All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no victor.
• Our country is now at war and the only way out is forward. I would not change one word I have spoken against war but…
• Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for
• Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it.
• There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
• No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life.
• The physiological law of Transfer of Energy is the basis of human success and happiness. There is no action without expenditure of energy, and if…
• "I am not much of a mathematician," said the cigarette, "but I can add to a man's nervous troubles, I can subtract from his physical…
• There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.
• Whatever you attempt, go at it with spirit.
• Whatever is not nailed down is mine." This is the motto of the exploiter. "Whatever can be pried loose is not nailed down." This is…
• The problem of life is not to make life easier, but to make men stronger.
• When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
• Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
• There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.
• The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.
• Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
• There is no real excellence in all this word which can be separated from right living.

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