About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
- Herbert Hoover - In Business
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Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
- Herbert Hoover - In Business
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Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
- Frank Herbert - In On Change
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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
- Frank Herbert - In History
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I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
- Herbert Hoover - In History
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Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
- Herbert Hoover - In History
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No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
- Herbert Hoover - In History
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Life is half spent before we know what it is.
- George Herbert - In Life
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The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
- A. P. Herbert - In Marriage
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".
- Herbert Spencer - In Marriage
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The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
- Herbert Hoover - In Politics
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Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
- Herbert Hoover - In Sports
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War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
- George Herbert - In War
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Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
- Herbert Hoover - In War
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A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
- Herbert V. Prochnow - In War
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