The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
ELBERT HUBBARDAcademic 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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The reward of a good deed is in having done it.
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Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.
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What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.
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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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Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
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If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.
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As we grow better, we meet better people.
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A goal without a plan is a dream.
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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.
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Success consists in the climb.
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A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
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We are punished by our sins, not for them.
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The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
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Freedom cannot be bestowed – it must be achieved.
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Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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