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The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Benjamin Jowett

My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.
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Believe Children Dear God
Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
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Beautiful Life Work
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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Educational May Men
Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
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Achievement Experience Science
If you don’t find a God by five o’clock this afternoon you must leave the college.
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Afternoon College Scary
Plato’s dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.
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Bears Classical Plato Play
Give the clergy your sympathy; don’t give them anything else.
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Anything Give Clergy Giving
It is as real an energy as the energy of electricity. It is a divine energy; it is the energy of the divine affection rolling in plenteousness toward the shores of human need.
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Affection Divine Electricity Energy Human Kind Shore
All translation is a compromise – the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.
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Compromise Effort Language
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
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Business Life Positive
I am not blaming the past. … But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.
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Future Past Peace Want
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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Action Distinctive Justice Kindness
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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Able Selling Way
Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.
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Life Men Mistake Young
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
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Kindness Learning Peace
It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.
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Important Pushing World

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