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- Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand…
- The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies.
- There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer.
- I protest that we fans are being emotionally starved and frustrated by long periods of perfect performance of these batteries. More over, when there are…
- I returned to the white House after midnight more depressed than ever before. I had long since arranged to attend the World Series in Philadelphia…
- I want more runs in baseball itself. When you were raised on a sandlot, where the scores ran twenty-three to sixty-one, you yearn for something…
- You cannot extend the mastery of government over the daily life of a people without somewhere making it master of people's souls and thoughts.... Every…
- I can at once refute the statement that the people of the West object to conservation of oil resources. They know that there is a…
- Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more…
- Man is still by instinct a predatory animal given to devilish aggression. The discoveries of science have immensely increased productivity of material things. They have…
- Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
- No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
- Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men…
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle