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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.

Benjamin Jowett

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
Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
BENJAMIN JOWETT

Beautiful Life Work
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
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
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Business Life Positive
Give the clergy your sympathy; don’t give them anything else.
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Anything Give Clergy Giving
Plato’s dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.
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Bears Classical Plato Play
All translation is a compromise – the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.
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Compromise Effort Language
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
Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.
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Life Men Mistake Young
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
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
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
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
Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.
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Said Successful Unnecessary
My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.
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Believe Children Dear God

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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