The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
BENJAMIN JOWETTWe cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
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If you don’t find a God by five o’clock this afternoon you must leave the college.
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Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.
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Give the clergy your sympathy; don’t give them anything else.
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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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Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.
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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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Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
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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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There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.
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Plato’s dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.
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We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
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All translation is a compromise – the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.
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One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
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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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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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