Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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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In order to have friends, you must first be one.
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The more one knows, the more one simplifies.
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The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
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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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The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
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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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Growth is often a painful process.
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Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
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Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.
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Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
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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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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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What people need and what they want may be very different.
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I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
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What we call God’s justice is only man’s idea of what he would do if he were God.
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