"It takes a great man to be a good listener."
-Calvin Coolidge
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"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.“
-Calvin Coolidge
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"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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"After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world."
-Calvin Coolidge
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"The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes."
-Calvin Coolidge
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"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
-Calvin Coolidge
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"Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas."
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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
-Thomas A. Edison
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"There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!"
-Coco Chanel
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"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
-Leo Tolstoy
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"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."
-Woody Allen
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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
-Albert Camus
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"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present."
-Lao Tzu
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