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“It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.” quote by Woodrow Wilson — Download Open image

“It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.”

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There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.

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One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

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Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

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...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their…

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The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.

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The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost…

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Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.

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The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the…

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What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of…

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Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000…

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Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a…

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The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing…

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Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look…

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“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism.”

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We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the future - we are going hyper-spatial; we are claiming a whole new dimension for biology that it never claimed before. We are actually becoming a fourth-dimensional kind of creature. Our future is somehow with us, as…

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