"We are not put into this world..." - Quote by Woodrow Wilson
We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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“Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.”
“We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.”
“The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.”
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“Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man?”
“Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.”
“When people find out what it is that's ticking in them, they get straightened out.”