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

— David Starr Jordan

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"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it."

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

Poverty, dirt, and crime are the products of those, in general, who are not good material.

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

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

The second [eugenic goal] is the limitation by public authority of the marriage of the defective, the insane, and the criminal.

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