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Every child has inside him an aching void for excitement and if we don't fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and good for him, he will fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and which isn't good for him.

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Work hard at work worth doing.

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An Airedale can do anything any other dog can do and then whip the other dog if he has to.

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From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality would have rendered the other of small value.

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Nothing worth having comes easy.

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I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.

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Such an experiment without actual conditions of war to support it is a foolish waste of time. . . . I once saw a man kill a lion with a 30-30 caliber rifle under certain conditions, but that doesn't mean that a 30-30 rifle is a lion gun.

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There are some timid souls that will never know victory nor defeat.

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No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children; for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but often every hour of the night.

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The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Do not be afraid to make mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.

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The general tendency towards an eight-hour working day has undoubtedly been healthful, and it is wise for the State to set a good example as an employer of labor, both as to the number of hours of labor exacted and as to paying a just and reasonable wage.

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Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.

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There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.

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Weasel words from mollycoddles will never do when the day demands prophetic clarity from greathearts. Manly men must emerge for this hour of trial.

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I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding

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The world wants the kind of men who do not shrink from temporary defeats in life; but come again and wrestle triumph from defeat.

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From its origin to the present hour, in all its vicissitudes, Masonry has been the steady unwearing friend of man.

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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

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The words of the Declaration of Independence, as given effect by Washington...are to be accepted as real, and not as empty phrases...that in very truth this is a government by the people themselves, that the Constitution is theirs, that the courts are theirs, that all the government agents and agencies are theirs... It is for the people themselves finally to decide all questions of public policy and to have their decision made effective...We here, in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world.

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If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay.

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