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

Benjamin Jowett

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
All translation is a compromise – the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.
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Compromise Effort Language
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
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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Energy Grace Real
It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.
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Important Pushing World
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
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
Plato’s dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.
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Bears Classical Plato Play
Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
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Beautiful Life Work
Give the clergy your sympathy; don’t give them anything else.
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Anything Give Clergy Giving
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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Air Man Men Oxford Probably Single
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
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
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Business Life Positive
Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.
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Said Successful Unnecessary
There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.
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Character Lying Truth
My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.
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Believe Children Dear God

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