Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...blood-stained trenches, haggard and worn, awaiting death. Between the halves of the game a collection will be taken up for the Harvard Surgical Unit, whose members are going across the water to alleviate the sufferings of university men engaged in a more serious struggle. If all stop to think what purpose their contributions will serve, the amount of the collection cannot help being worthy of the throng of spectators. Let both Harvard and Princeton supporters, whether their particular team is ahead or not, remember the struggle in Europe and give gladly and generously...
...fact that O. Henry spent three years in jail and that during that time he wrote some of his most famous short stories is a striking reminder of a familiar but often neglected truth. A man cannot find himself unless he takes time to think...
...confined in a London prison. John Bunyan, the wandering preacher, became John Bunyan, the author of "Pilgrim's Progress" during his imprisonment in Bedford jail. It is possible that neither of these men would have achieved the fame he now enjoys had it not been for the time to think that was imposed upon...
...know their own capacities and limitations. If they did, there would be fewer misfits, fewer round pegs in square holes. The man who can tell approximately what he is worth, and then go out and make himself better, cannot help succeeding. He is the man who has learned to think before he goes to jail...
...rather than constructed. How many men who voted in the straw ballot, how many who will march in the Hughes parade tonight, base their acts on solid reasoning and conviction? The only reason why free-thinkers are persecuted is that the majority of people do not take time to think. They blindly follow the conservatism of the last decade, finding it easier to submit than to investigate...