Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption
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I am not willing that this discussion should close without mention of the value of a true teacher. Give me a log hut, with only a simple bench, Mark Hopkins on one end and I on the other, and you may have all the buildings, apparatus and libraries without him.
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The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
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Poverty is uncomfortable; but 9 times out of 10 the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and be compelled to sink or swim.
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Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification. They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.
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If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.
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Indignation boils my blood at the thought of the heritage we are throwing away; at the thought that, with few exceptions, the fight for freedom is left to the poor, forlorn and defenseless, and to the few radicals and revolutionaries who would make use of liberty to destroy, rather than to maintain, American institutions.
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Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.
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Ideas control the world.
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A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.
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The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think
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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.
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I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen.
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Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
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The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
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A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
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If wrinkles must be written upon your brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.
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Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
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A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
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I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table.
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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.
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Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
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The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a contempt for mere external show.
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Must I tell the story of my life again?
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