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Business Is A Fight, A Continual Struggle, Just As Life Is

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Business Is A Fight, A Continual Struggle, Just As Life Is

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Perfume: Any Smell That Is Used To Drown A Worse One.

Men Are Rich Only As They Give. He Who Gives Great Service Gets Great Rewards.

The Happiness Of This Life Depends Less On What Befalls You Than The Way In Which You Take It.

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Enthusiasm Is The Great Hill-climber.

Thoroughness 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.

Be Patient With The Boys - You Are Dealing With Soul-stuff.

Every Knock Is A Boost.

I Believe In Courtesy, In Kindness, In Generosity, In Good Cheer, In Friendship And In Honest Competition. I Believe There Is Something Doing Somewhere, For Every Man Ready To Do It. I Believe I'm Ready, Right Now.

Those Who Create Beauty Are Also They Who Possess It.

Organized Religion, Being Founded On Superstition, Is, Perforce, Not Scientific. And All That Which Is Not Scientific - That Is, Truthful - Must Be Bolstered Up By Force, Fear And Falsehood. Thus We Always Find Slavery And Organized Religion Going Hand In Hand.

Christianity Supplies A Hell For The People Who Disagree With You And A Heaven For Your Friends.

In A State Of Nature, The Weakest Go To The Wall; In A State Of Over-refinement, Both The Weak And The Strong Go To The Gutter.

Constant Effort And Frequent Mistakes Are The Stepping Stones To Genius.

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The Finest Friendships Are Between Those Who Can Do Without Each Other.

A Legal Or Religious Ceremony By Which Two Persons Of The Opposite Sex Solemnly Agree To Harass And Spy On Each Other... Until Death Do Them Join.

A Little More Persistence, A Little More Effort, And What Seemed Hopeless Failure May Turn To Glorious Success. There Is No Failure Except In No Longer Trying. There Is No Defeat Except From Within, No Really Insurmountable Barrier Save Our Own Inherent Weakness Of Purpose.

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I Rather Like The World. The Flesh Is Pleasing And The Devil Does Not Trouble Me.

A College Degree Does Not Lessen The Length Of Your Ears; It Only Conceals It.

Every Spirit Makes Its House, But As Afterwards The House Confines The Spirit, You Had Better Build Well.

Strength And Strength's Will Are The Supreme Ethic. All Else Are Dreams From Hospital Beds, The Sly, Crawling Goodness Of Sneaking Souls.

Do Not Dump Your Woes Upon People — Keep The Sad Story Of Your Life To Yourself. Troubles Grow By Recounting Them.

Every Man Is A Damn Fool For At Least Five Minutes Every Day; Wisdom Consists In Not Exceeding The Limit.

Parties Who Want Milk Should Not Seat Themselves On A Stool In The Middle Of The Field In Hope That The Cow Will Back Up To Them.

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.

Lawyers Are The Jackals Of Commerce.

Habit: The Great Economizer Of Energy.

The Past Is One Evil Less And One Memory More.

Would You Make Men Better - Set Them An Example. The Millenium Will Never Come Until Governments Cease From Governing, And The Meddler Is At Rest.

It Is Not Deeds Or Acts That Last: It Is The Written Record Of Those Deeds And Acts.

The Best Way To Prepare For Life Is To Begin To Live.

If You Can't Answer A Man's Arguments, All Is Not Lost; You Can Still Call Him Vile Names.

Success Is The Most Natural Thing In The World. The Person Who Does Not Succeed Has Placed Himself In Opposition To The Laws Of The Universe.

I Will Gladly Lecture For Fifty Dollars, But I'll Not Be A Guest For Less Than A Hundred.

Theology, By Diverting The Attention Of Men From This Life To Another, And By Endeavoring To Coerce All Men Into One Religion, Constantly Preaching That This World Is Full Of Misery, But The Next World Would Be Beautiful - Or Not, As The Case May Be - Has Forced On Men The Thought Of Fear Where Otherwise There Might Have Been The Happy Abandon Of Nature.

Fear Clogs; Faith Liberates.

The Inspirations Of Today Are The Shams Of Tomorrow The Purpose Has Departed.

Every Life Is Its Own Excuse For Being, And To Deny Or Refute The Untrue Things That Are Said Of You Is An Error In Judgment. All Wrong Recoils Upon The Doer, And The Person Who Makes Wrong Statements About Others Is Themselves To Be Pitied, Not The Person They Vilify. It Is Better To Be Lied About Than To Lie. At The Last No One Can Harm Us But Ourselves.

Don't Lose Faith In Humanity; Think Of All The People In The United States Who Have Never Played You A Single Nasty Trick.

The New Definition Of A Heathen Is A Man Who Has Never Played Baseball.

A Form Of Self-delusion.

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He Who Does Not Understand Your Silence Will Probably Not Understand Your Words.

Lovers Are Fools, But Nature Makes Them So.

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Theology Is Classified Superstition.

Life Is A Checkerboard, And The Player Opposite You Is Time. If You Hesitate Before Moving, Or Neglect To Move Promptly, Your Men Will Be Wiped Off The Board By Time. You Are Playing Against A Partner Who Will Not Tolerate Indecision!

The Secret Of Success Is This: There Is No Secret Of Success.

There Is A Joy In Going Without Things, A Fine Tang In Eliminating The Superfluous.

The Home Is A Tryst-the Place Where We Retire And Shut The World Out.

The Wise Way To Benefit Humanity Is To Attend To Your Own Affairs, And Thus Give Other People An Opportunity To Look After Theirs.

Friendship, Like Credit, Is Highest When It Is Not Used.

One Thing Is Sure, There Are Just Two Respectable Ways To Die. One Is Of Old Age, And The Other Is By Accident.

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All Good Men Are Anarchists. All Cultured, Kindly Men; All Gentlemen; All Just Men Are Anarchists. Jesus Was An Anarchist.

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Real Life Is In Love, Laughter, And Work.

A Creed Is An Ossified Metaphor.

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Love, We Say, Is Life; But Love Without Hope And Faith Is Agonizing Death.

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Miracle: An Event Described By Those To Whom It Was Told By Men Who Did Not See It.

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I Believe The Universe Is Planned For Good.

Down In Their Hearts, Wise Men Know This Truth: The Only Way To Help Yourself Is To Help Others.

The Artist Needs No Religion Beyond His Work.

Put Yourself In The Other Man's Place And Then You Will Know Why He Thinks Certain Things And Does Certain Deeds.

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Progress Comes From The Intelligent Use Of Experience.

Blessed Is The Man Who Has Found Someone To Do His Work.

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The More One Knows, The More One Simplifies.

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Life Is Just One Damned Thing After Another.

Souls Are Made Of Dawn-stuff And Starshine.

Life Without Absorbing Occupation Is Hell; Joy Consists In Forgetting Life.

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An American Religion: Work, Play, Breathe, Bathe, Study, Live, Laugh, And Love.

A Goal Without A Plan Is A Dream.

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Faith Is The Effort To Believe What Your Common Sense Tells You Is Not True.

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Laws That Do Not Embody Public Opinion Can Never Be Enforced.

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The Weaknesses Of The Many Make The Leader Possible.

Some Men Can Get Results If Kindly Encouraged, But Give Me The Kind That Do Things In Spite Of Hell.

Library: A Place Where The Dead Lie.

No Man Needs A Vacation So Much As The Man Who Has Just Had One.

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A Friend Is One Who Knows You And Loves You Just The Same.

It Is Only Life And Love That Give Love And Life.

Pessimist: One Who Has Been Intimately Acquainted With An Optimist.

The Poor And Ignorant Will Continue To Lie And Steal As Long As The Rich And Educated Show Them How.

This Will Never Be A Civilized Country Until We Spend More Money For Books Than We Do For Chewing Gum.

Wealth: A Cunning Device Of Fate Whereby Men Are Made Captive, And Burdened With Responsibilites From Which Only Death Can File Their Fetters.

The Woman Who Cannot Tell A Lie In Defense Of Her Husband, Is Unworthy Of The Name Of Wife.

Little Minds Are Interested In The Extraordinary; Great Minds In The Commonplace.

Self-discipline Is The Ability To Make Yourself Do What You Should Do, When You Should Do It, Whether You Feel Like It Or Not.

No Great Spiritual Event Befalls Those Who Do Not Summon It.

Every Man Who Speaks Out Loud And Clear Is Tinting The "zeitgeist." Every Man Who Expresses What He Honestly Thinks Is True Is Changing The Spirit Of The Times. Thinkers Help Other People To Think, For They Formulate What Others Are Thinking. No Person Writes Or Thinks Alone--thought Is In The Air, But Its Expression Is Necessary To Create A Tangible Spirit Of The Times.

To Subjugate Another Is To Subjugate Yourself.

If You Don't Advertise Yourself You Will Be Advertised By Your Loving Enemies.

Not Only Does Beauty Fade, But It Leaves A Record Upon The Face As To What Became Of It.

Young Women With Ambitions Should Be Very Crafty And Cautious, Lest Mayhap They Be Caught In The Soft, Silken Mesh Of A Happy Marriage, And Go Down To Oblivion, Dead To The World.

The Friend Is The Man Who Knows All About You, And Still Likes You.

The Great Man Is Not So Great As Folks Think, And The Dull Man Is Not Quite So Stupid As He Seems. The Difference In Our Estimates Of Men Lies In The Fact That One Individual Is Able To Get His Goods Into The Show-window, And The Other Is Not Aware That He Has Any Show-window Or Any Goods.

If There Is Any Better Way To Teach Virtue Than By Practicing It, I Do Not Know It.

If It Was Woman Who Put Man Out Of Paradise, It Is Still Woman, And Woman Only, Who Can Lead Him Back.

What We Call God's Justice Is Only Man's Idea Of What He Would Do If He Were God.

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.

When On The Brink Of Complete Discouragement, Success Is Discerning That...the Line Between Failure And Success Is So Fine That Often A Single Extra Effort Is All That Is Needed To Bring Victory Out Of Defeat.

God Is Good, There Is No Devil But Fear.

I Believe In The Motherhood Of God.

The Cheerful Loser Is The Winner.

The Path Of Civilization Is Paved With Tin Cans.

Reason: The Arithmetic Of The Emotions.

Life Consists In Molting Our Illusions. We Form Creeds Today Only To Throw Them Away Tomorrow. The Eagle Molts A Feather Because He Is Growing A Better One.

Every Life Is Its Own Excuse For Being.

The Man Who Is Anybody And Who Does Anything Is Surely Going To Be Criticized, Vilified, And Misunderstood. This Is A Part Of The Penalty For Greatness, And Every Great Man Understands It; And Understands, Too, That It Is No Proof Of Greatness. The Final Proof Of Greatness Lies In Being Able To Endure Contumely Without Resentment.

The Goal Of Evolution Is Self - Conquest

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Everything Comes Too Late For Those Who Only Wait.

Man's Greatest Blunder Has Been In Trying To Make Peace With The Skies Instead Of Making Peace With His Neighbors

The Brain Is A Commodity Used To Fertilize Ideas.

It Is Not Book Learning Young Men Need, Nor Instruction About This And That, But A Stiffening Of The Vertebra Which Will Cause Them To Be Loyal To A Trust, To Act Promptly, Concentrate Their Energies, Do A Thing.

Know What You Want To Do, Hold The Thought Firmly, And Do Every Day What Should Be Done, And Every Sunset Will See You That Much Nearer To Your Goal.

Writers Seldom Write The Things They Think. They Simply Write The Things They Think Other Folks Think They Think.

It Does Not Take Much Strength To Do Things, But It Requires Great Strength To Decide On What To Do.

The Valuable Person In Any Business Is The Individual Who Can And Will Cooperate With Others.

Give Us A Religion That Will Help Us To Live - We Can Die Without Assistance.

An Executive Is One Who Makes An Immediate Decision And Is Sometimes Right

Logic: An Instrument Used For Bolstering A Prejudice.

It Is A Curious Fact That Of All The Illusions That Beset Mankind None Is Quite So Curious As That Tendency To Suppose That We Are Mentally And Morally Superior To Those Who Differ From Us In Opinion.

Piety Is The Tinfoil Of Pretense.

One Machine Can Do The Work Of Fifty Ordinary Men. No Machine Can Do The Work Of One Extraordinary Man.

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