Quote by Calvin Coolidge
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to st

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. – Calvin Coolidge

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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. – Calvin Coolidge

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Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws. – Calvin Coolidge

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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically. – Aneurin Bevan

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The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come if you dont, theres no hope for you. – Orson Scott Card

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I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience. – Ricky Williams

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I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract. – Joaquin Phoenix

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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. – Walt Whitman

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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. – Franklin P. Adams

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