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.
B. C. FORBESIf you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!
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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one’s best. 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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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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