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You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

Elbert Hubbard

What we call God’s justice is only man’s idea of what he would do if he were God.
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Call God Himself Ideas Justice Man
Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.
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Conclusion Ignorance Personal Right Thinking Yourself
People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
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Advice People Thinking
Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
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Ability Courage Energy Failure Goal Organization People
All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
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Charity Power Production Salary
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
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Ability Rare Recognition Wisdom
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
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Appearance God Scars Yourself
The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.
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Count Man Reward Risk See
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
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Education Himself Man Order Worth
If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.
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Himself Leadership Man Paradise Woman
Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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Believe Enemy Explanation Friendship Need Yourself
Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
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Achievement Art Character Genius Infinity Man Pain Success
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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Inspirational Machine Man Oneself Ordinary Work Worth
Fences are made for those who cannot fly.
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Build Fly Prison
A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
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Compliment Doubt Exception Herself Woman
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
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Ability Better God Reward Work

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