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We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

Elbert Hubbard

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
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Alone Children Education Object Teaching
People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
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Advice People Thinking
To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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Divine Human Mistake Profit
If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
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Answer Himself Lost Man Name
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.
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Fear Greatness Life Mistake Oneself
Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.
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Academics Act Book Education Memories Reading
If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.
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Busy Kind Man Time Work
Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
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Effort Frequency Genius Mistake Stone
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
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Experience Failure Man
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
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Generosity Growth Love Way Wisdom
Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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Believe Enemy Explanation Friendship Need Yourself
Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.
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Conclusion Ignorance Personal Right Thinking Yourself
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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Inspirational Machine Man Oneself Ordinary Work Worth
Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.
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Goal Hold Inspirational See Thinking Yourself
Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is.
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Business Fight Life Struggle
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
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Ability Rare Recognition Wisdom

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