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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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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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Presidents Day
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Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. – James Bryce

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Patriotism
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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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Government
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There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marxs Capital. – W. E. B. Du Bois

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Books

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Books

Medicine for the soul. – Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes

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Books

Encourage and pursue an inclination to reading early in life; it is laying up a treasure for the latter part of it… – Countess Dowager of Carlisle, Thoughts in the Form of Maxims addressed to Young

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Books

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Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as The Pacific. – Steven Spielberg

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Education

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing. – Herbert Hoover

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respect

Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map. – Wayne Calloway

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Concentration

I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate. – Susannah McCorkle

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Trust