To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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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As we grow better, we meet better people.
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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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Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
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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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Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
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The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.
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Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
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Art is not a thing; it is a way.
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What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.
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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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Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
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Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
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What people need and what they want may be very different.
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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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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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