We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
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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Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.
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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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My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.
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Plato’s dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.
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Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.
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All translation is a compromise – the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.
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Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
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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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Give the clergy your sympathy; don’t give them anything else.
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There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.
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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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One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
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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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I am not blaming the past. … But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.
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Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
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