We work to become, not to acquire.
ELBERT HUBBARDAcademic 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.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.
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The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
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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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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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If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
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Most people like hard work, particularly when they’re paying for it.
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If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.
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All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody – benefiting humanity – and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.
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Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
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Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
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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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Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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