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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.

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Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
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Current Electric Enthusiasm Progress
A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Sunny Sunny Afternoon Weather Yield
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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Europe Feet Hands
The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
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Men Self Simplicity
Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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Cancer Jealous Jealousy
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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Blow Effort Fate
The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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Men Religion Ships
Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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Children Fate Inspirational
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
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Courage Inspirational Perseverance
He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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Confidence Courage Faith
There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
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Effort Goal Two
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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Credit Firsts Satisfaction
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
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Determination Fate Lying
We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
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Happiness Selfishness Suicidal
Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Character Honesty Men
The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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Life Normal Who Cares

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