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"We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance."
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"It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture."
"Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance."
"As far as now, as far as I think everyone deserv a chance. No matter who is he and who was he."
"Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape."
"I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be."
"Everybody deserves a second chance in this world. That's basically all I ask."
"Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago."
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"Any plan of administration which contemplates a concentrating of responsibility is open to the dangers which follow the creation of a bureaucracy."
"We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life."
"A boy or girl who has gone through the eight grades should possess a complete, practical education and should have received special training in some specific line of work, fitting him or her to earn a livelihood."
"For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life."
"Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming."
"If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens - men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls."
"The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole."
"Until the people, by amendment, change the constitution, I urge that the counties cooperate with one another, that future road work be more uniform, and done in such a way that it will result in connected and continuous highways."
"Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way interfere with a full and free expression of the people's choice in naming the candidates to be voted on at general elections."
"It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers."
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