Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.
ELBERT HUBBARDAnyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.
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The love we give away is the only love we keep.
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Failure — The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.
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Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
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To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.
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Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.
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Man’s greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.
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Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
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Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
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The man who has no problems is out of the game.
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Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
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