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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face 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.
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Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.
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The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.
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(Hobbes:) Do you think there's a God? (Calvin:) Well, somebody's out to get me.
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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
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A t American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom.
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
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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.
Source: The quotable Calvin Coolidge: sensible words for a new century (2001) -
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.
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Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.
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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
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Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!
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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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Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind.
Source: Speech 25 december 1927 -
Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
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Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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Each eye can have its vision separately; but when we are looking at anything… our vision, which in itself is divided, joins up and unites in order to give itself as a whole to the object that is put before it.
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