Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
BENJAMIN JOWETTYou’ve got to be success minded. You’ve got to feel that things are coming your way when you’re out selling; otherwise, you won’t be able to sell anything.
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My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.
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To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.
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One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
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We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
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You’ve got to be success minded. You’ve got to feel that things are coming your way when you’re out selling; otherwise, you won’t be able to sell anything.
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Grace is an energy; not a mere sentiment; not a mere thought of the Almighty; not even a word of the Almighty.
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All translation is a compromise – the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.
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If you don’t find a God by five o’clock this afternoon you must leave the college.
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Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
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The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
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It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.
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We can’t search or attain well being, wealth, studying, justice or kindness usually. Action is all the time particular, concrete, individualized, distinctive.
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Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford] common rooms, and to widen the intellectual horizons of the place.
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Plato’s dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.
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I am not blaming the past. … But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.
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