Winthrop W. Aldrich famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It must be the aim of education to teach the citizen that he must first of all rule himself.
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If we can implant in our people the Christian virtues which we sum up in the word character, and, at the same time, give them a knowledge of the line which should be drawn between voluntary action and governmental compulsion in a democracy, and of what can be accomplished within the stern laws of economics, we will enable them to retain their freedom, and at the same time, make them worthy to be free.
-- Winthrop W. Aldrich
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Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day. Civility, respect, kindness, character.
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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world.
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In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.
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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.
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The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.
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The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.
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I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself - that there arent really any rules.
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When you're young you don't know anything, but you have lot of energy to express yourself. So you make a lot of mistakes and you stumble, but you also get a lot of truth from within.
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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.
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