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Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful men and…
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Men do not fail; they give up trying.
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When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of intellect and…
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It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a…
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The framers of the Constitution realized that . . . there needed to be some guardian of the sober second thought, and…
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Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such…
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It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they…
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Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities…
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I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence.…
— Charles Darwin
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It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a…
— Elihu Root
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Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.
— Phillips Brooks
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Character is simply habit long continued.
— Plutarch
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All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.
— William Wordsworth
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As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by…
— Samuel Johnson
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Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it…
— Charles Darwin
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[It] is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.
— James Hutton
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