People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
ELBERT HUBBARDPoliticians regard the public as a cow to be milked.
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Freedom cannot be bestowed – it must be achieved.
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As we grow better, we meet better people.
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To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
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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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Art is not a thing; it is a way.
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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
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Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
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A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
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All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
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If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.
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Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.
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The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
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Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
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Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.
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The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
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Fences are made for those who cannot fly.
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It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
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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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Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
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Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
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A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
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The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary
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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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