Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
B. C. FORBESIf a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
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There’s no such thing as a self-made man. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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