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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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A little learning indeed may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars.
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
