The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.
ELBERT HUBBARDYou can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
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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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As we grow better, we meet better people.
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If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
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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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I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
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Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is.
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Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.
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In order to have friends, you must first be one.
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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
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No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
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Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
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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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A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
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The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.
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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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