Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
ELBERT HUBBARDThoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
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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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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
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Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
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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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You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
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We work to become, not to acquire.
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
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If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.
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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
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The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
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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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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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Man’s greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.
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The man who has no problems is out of the game.
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In order to have friends, you must first be one.
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