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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able vicariously to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat what's more with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

The little may contrast with the great in painting but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast but there are also colors contrary to each other that is which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery of party faction and division of society.

Our Generation has had no Great war no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

If your determination is fixed I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength but perseverance.

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