David Starr Jordan Quotes

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No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life.

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Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it.

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There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for

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Our country is now at war and the only way out is forward. I would not change one word I have spoken against war but that is no longer the issue. We must now stand together.

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The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.

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Far away in the thirties and forties she (the girl you want to be) is waiting her turn. Her body, brain, her soul are in your girlish hands. She cannot help herself. What will you leave for her? … Will you throw away her inheritance?

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Science must stop where the facts stop, or thereabout, the limit of "thereabout" covering all legitimate diversions and excursions of philosophy.

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The problem of life is not to make life easier, but to make men stronger.

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There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

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The simplest organism we know is far more complex than the constitution of the USA.

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In science and literature as well as in other fields notoriety is due either to the personality of the man or to the work which he has accomplished, while in certain cases both contribute to his fame.

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Knowing the law, and knowing the facts, we should foretell the results. To be able in some degree to do this is the art of life.

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The creation of man or the growth of a state is as natural as the formation of an apple or the growth of a snowbank. All are alike supernatural, for they all rest on the huge unseen solidity of the universe, the imperishability of matter, the conservation of energy, and the immanence of law.

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