There is one kind of charity common enough among us_ It is that patchwork philanthropy which clothes the ragged, feeds the poor, and heals the sick. I am far from decrying the noble spirit which seeks to help a poor or suffering fellow being_ [However] what advances a nation or a community is not so much to prop up its weakest and most helpless members, but to lift up the best and the most gifted, so as to make them of the greatest service to the country.
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We love to quote the saying __ome was not built in a day_ but we fail to remember that Rome was eventually built, and it must have been so magnificent that when people admired it, they were told that it didn__ happen in just a day. The question, then, is: if Rome was not built in a day, how was it built? Answer: It was built every day.
Show me the heroes that the youth of your country look up to, and I will tell you the future of your country.
__n top of the government-hierarchy you need an unpolluted group of scientists to give a nation the best direction.