The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.
ELBERT HUBBARDAnyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
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No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
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What people need and what they want may be very different.
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
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In order to have friends, you must first be one.
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The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.
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Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.
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The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.
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Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.
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Success consists in the climb.
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All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
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As we grow better, we meet better people.
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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
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The love we give away is the only love we keep.
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