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

— David Starr Jordan

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

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

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.

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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