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He showed that fame may be won and what services be rendered by a

He showed that fame may be won and what services be rendered by a plain son of the people unaided by any gifts of fortune. – James Bryce

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Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existance. – James Bryce

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The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men. – James Bryce

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The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. – James Bryce

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Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. – Herbert Hoover

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To him was given the duty and responsibility of making that great classic of liberty, the Declaration of Independence, no longer an empty promise, but a glorious fulfillment. – William McKinley

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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is. – Thomas Jefferson

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He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest memory of our world. – Robert G. Ingersoll

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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us. – Dag Hammarskjold

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To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions. – Samuel Wilson

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Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. – Doug Larson

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The more laws the more offenders. – Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

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