"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it."
"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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Source: David Starr Jordan (1922). “The days of a man: being memories of a naturalist, teacher, and minor prophet of democracy”
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