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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.

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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.

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Action Is Thought Tempered By Illusion.

The Best Preparation For Good Work Tomorrow Is To Do Good Work Today.

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

Where Much Is Expected From An Individual, He May Rise To The Level Of Events And Make The Dream Come True.

The Love You Liberate In Your Work Is The Love You Keep.

The Difference In Men Does Not Lie In The Size Of Their Hands, Nor In The Perfection Of Their Bodies, But In This One Sublime Ability Of Concentration: To Throw The Weight In One Blow, To Live Eternity In An Hour.

Man, Like Deity, Creates In His Own Image.

Die, V.: To Stop Sinning Suddenly.

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

If Pleasures Are Greatest In Anticipation, Just Remember That This Is Also True Of Trouble.

Life Is Just One Damned Thing After Another.

There Is No Freedom On Earth Or In Any Star For Those Who Deny Freedom To Others.

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.

Progress Comes From The Intelligent Use Of Experience.

An Enemy Is Anyone Who Tells The Truth About You.

Telling The Truth

Do Your Work With Your Whole Heart, And You Will Succeed - There's So Little Competition.

In Order To Have Friends, You Must First Be One.

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

Lawyers Are The Jackals Of Commerce.

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

Reversing Your Treatment Of The Man You Have Wronged Is Better Than Asking His Forgiveness.

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

Art Is Not A Thing; It Is A Way.

The Average Man Believes A Thing First, And Then Searches For Proof To Bolster His Opinion

Time Is An Eternal Guest That Banquets On Our Ideals And Bodies.

In These Days, A Man Who Says A Thing Cannot Be Done Is Quite Apt To Be Interrupted By Some Idiot Doing It.

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.

Play Needs Direction As Well As Work.

Forbid A Man To Think For Himself Or To Act For Himself And You May Add The Joy Of Piracy And The Zest Of Smuggling To His Life.

Let A Man Once See Himself As Others See Him, And All Enthusiasm Vanishes From His Heart.

Orthodoxy Is A Corpse That Doesn't Know It's Dead.

If Men Will Not Act For Themselves, What Will They Do When The Benefit Of Their Effort Is For All?

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

I Would Rather Be Able To Appreciate Things I Can Not Have Than To Have Things I Am Not Able To Appreciate.

Character Is The Result Of Two Things: Mental Attitude And The Way We Spend Our Time.

Why Not Be A Top-notcher? A Top-notcher Is Simply An Individual Who Works For The Institution Of Which He Is A Part, Not Against It.

When You Grow Suspicious Of A Person And Begin A System Of Espionage Upon Him, Your Punishment Will Be That You Will Find Your Suspicions True.

It Is Easy To Get Everything You Want, Provided You First Learn To Do Without The Things You Cannot Get.

Responsibiliti Es Gravitate To The Man Who Can Shoulder Them And The Power To Him Who Knows How

Destruction, Violence, Ravages, Murder, Are Perpetrated By Statute Law.

Your Neighbor Is The Man Who Needs You.

I Do Not Read A Book; I Hold A Conversation With The Author.

Insomnia Never Comes To A Man Who Has To Get Up Exactly At Six O'clock. Insomnia Troubles Only Those Who Can Sleep Any Time.

The More One Knows, The More One Simplifies.

He Who Influences The Thought Of His Times Influences The Times That Follow.

The Worst Thing About Medicine Is That One Kind Makes Another Necessary

When A Man Sends You An Impudent Letter, Sit Right Down And Give It Back To Him With Interest Ten Times Compounded, And Then Throw Both Letters In The Wastebasket.

What People Need And What They Want May Be Very Different.... Teachers Are Those Who Educate The People To Appreciate The Things They Need.

Yesterday Woman Was A Chattel. Now She Is, In Law, A Minor. Tomorrow She Will Be Free, Or Partially So--that Is To Say, As Free As Man.

If Put To The Pinch, An Ounce Of Loyalty Is Worth A Pound Of Cleverness.

Loyal Customers

Man Is Not What He Thinks He Is, But What He Thinks, He Is.

A Little More Patience, A Little More Charity For All, A Little More Devotion, A Little More Love; With Less Bowing Down To The Past, And A Silent Ignoring Of Pretended Authority; Brave Looking Forward To The Future With More Faith In Our Fellows, And The Race Will Be Ripe For A Great Burst Of Light And Life.

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

When You Once Attribute Effects To The Will Of A Personal God, You Have Let In A Lot Of Little Gods And Evils - Then Sprites, Fairies, Dryads, Naiads, Witches, Ghosts And Goblins, For Your Imagination Is Reeling, Riotous, Drunk, Afloat On The Flotsam Of Superstition. What You Know Then Doesn't Count. You Just Believe, And The More Your Believe The More Do You Plume Yourself That Fear And Faith Are Superior To Science And Seeing.

You Can Go Wrong By Being Too Skeptical As Readily As By Being Too Trusting. You Can Lead A Boy To College But You Cannot Make Him Think.

No Good Sensible Working Bee Listens To The Advice Of A Bedbug On The Subject Of Business.

In God's Great Vaudeville, Mother Is The Headliner.

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.

We Are Not Punished For Our Sins, But By Them.

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

Pray That Success Will Not Come Any Faster Than You Are Able To Endure It.

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Success Is Voltage Under Control-keeping One Hand On The Transformer Of Your Kosmic Kilowatts.

Respectability Is The Dickey On The Bosom Of Civilization.

Men Who Sit Back And Pride Themselves On Their Culture Haven't Any To Speak Of.

Souls Are Made Of Dawn-stuff And Starshine.

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The Church Saves Sinners, But Science Seeks To Stop Their Manufacture.

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

A Man's Acts Are Usually Right, But His Reasons Seldom Are.

What Boy Well Raised Can Compare With Your Street Gamin Who Has The Knowledge And The Shrewdness Of A Grown-up Broker.

To Have A Full Stomach And Fixed Income Are No Small Things .

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Positive Anything Is Better Than Negative Nothing.

The Only Foes That Threaten America Are The Enemies At Home, And These Are Ignorance, Superstition And Incompetence.

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

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The Past Is One Evil Less And One Memory More.

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Our Admiration Is So Given To Dead Martyrs That We Have Little Time For Living Heroes.

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

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

Where Parents Do Too Much For Their Children, The Children Will Not Do Much For Themselves.

Often We Can Help Each Other Most By Leaving Each Other Alone; At Other Times We Need The Hand-grasp And The Word Of Cheer.

Lovers Are Fools, But Nature Makes Them So.

Men Are Only As Great As They Are Kind.

Never Explain - Your Friends Do Not Need It And Your Enemies Will Not Believe You Anyway.

No One Ever Gets Far Unless He Accomplishes The Impossible At Least Once A Day.

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I Have No Perfect Panacea For Human Ills. And Even If I Had I Would Not Attempt To Present A System Of Philosophy Between The Soup And Fish.

As A Career, The Business Of An Orthodox Preacher Is About As Successful As That Of A Celluloid Dog Chasing An Asbestos Cat Through Hell.

Those Who Do Unlawful Acts Are No More Sinners In The Eyes Of God Than We Who Think Them.

Editor: A Person Employed By A Newspaper, Whose Business It Is To Separate The Wheat From The Chaff, And To See That The Chaff Is Printed.

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We Are Punished By Our Sins, Not For Them.

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The Fool Is Not The Man Who Merely Does Foolish Things. The Fool Is The Man Who Does Not Know Enough To Cash In On His Foolishness.

The Mintage Of Wisdom Is To Know That Rest Is Rust, And That Real Life Is Love, Laughter, And Work.

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.

If You Want Work Well Done, Select A Busy Man - The Other Kind Has No Time.

Whom The Gods Love Die Young No Matter How Long They Live.

The Product Of The Head, Heart And Hand Is A Thing To Be Loved.

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.

The Only Way To Retain Love Is To Give It Away.

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Strong Men Can Always Afford To Be Gentle. Only The Weak Are Intent On Giving As Good As They Get.

Most Reformers Wore Rubber Boots And Stood On Glass When God Sent A Current Of Commonsense Through The Universe.

Seeing With Better Eyes We Can Recognize That The Offender Is A Valuable Human Being Who Struggles With The Same Needs, Pressures, And Confusions That We Struggle With. We Will Recognize That The Incident Really May Not Have Been About Us In The First Place. Instead It Was About The Wrongdoer's Misguided Attempt To Meet His Or Her Own Needs. As We Regard Offenders From This Point Of View (regardless Of Whether They Repent And Regardless Of What They Have Done Or Suffered), We Will Be In A Position To Forgive Them.

History: A Collection Of Epitaphs.

Government Is A Kind Of Legalized Pillage.

I Would Rather Have A Big Burden And A Strong Back, Than A Weak Back And A Caddy To Carry Life's Luggage.

All Wages Are Based Primarily On Productive Power. Anything Else Would Be Charity.

Those Who Create Beauty Are Also They Who Possess It.

Conformists Die, But Heretics Live Forever.

A Creed Is An Ossified Metaphor.

The Hundred-point Man Is One Who Is True To Every Trust; Who Keeps His Word; Who Is Loyal To The Firm That Employs Him; Who Does Not Listen For Insults Nor Look For Slights; Who Carries A Civil Tongue In His Head; Who Is Polite To Strangers Without Being Fresh; Who Is Considerate Toward Servants; Who Is Moderate In His Eating And Drinking; Who Is Willing To Learn; Who Is Cautious And Yet Courageous.

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.

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

Knowledge Is The Distilled Essence Of Our Institutions, Corroborated By Experience.

Half The Failures In Life Arise From Pulling In One's Horse As He Is Leaping. Happiness Is A Habit. Cultivate It.

Nothing Is Permanent But Change.

Cultivate Only The Habits That You Are Willing Should Master You

The Line Between Failure And Success Is So Fine That We Scarcely Know When We Pass It: So Fine That We Are Often On The Line And Do Not Know It.

Logic Is One Thing And Commonsense Another.

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

The Thing We Fear We Bring To Pass.

The Greatest Mistake A Person Can Make Is To Be Afraid Of Making One.

Enthusiasm Is Like Having Two Right Hands.

Service Culture

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

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

Men Who Marry For Gratification, Propagation Or The Matter Of Buttons Or Socks, Must Expect To Cope With And Deal In A Certain Amount Of Quibble, Subterfuge, Concealments, And Double, Deep-dyed Prevarication.

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

Natural Joy Brings No Headaches And No Heartaches.

The Recipe For Perpetual Ignorance Is: Be Satisfied With Your Opinions And Content With Your Knowledge.

A Conservative Is A Man Who Is Too Cowardly To Fight And Too Fat To Run.

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

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

Many A Man's Reputation Would Not Know His Character If They Met On The Street.

Strength Comes From Solitude, A Waiting, A Communion With The Best In Us, Which Is At One With The Divine Spark.

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

I Believe In The Hands That Work, In The Brains That Think, And In The Hearts That Love...i Believe In Sunshine, Fresh Air, Friendship, Calm Sleep, Beautiful Thoughts.

We Make Our Money Out Of Our Friends. Our Enemies Will Not Do Business With Us.

The Sculptor Produces The Beautiful Statue By Chipping Away Such Parts Of The Marble Block As Are Not Needed - It Is A Process Of Elimination.

A School Should Not Be A Preparation For Life. A School Should Be Life.

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.

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

We Awaken In Others The Same Attitude Of Mind We Hold Toward Them.

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

To Subjugate Another Is To Subjugate Yourself.

People Who Are Able To Do Their Own Thinking Should Not Allow Others To Do It For Them.

The Only Man Who Makes Money Following The Races Is One Who Does It With A Broom And Shovel.

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

To Avoid Criticism, Do Nothing, Say Nothing And Be Nothing.

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.

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.

Reason: The Arithmetic Of The Emotions.

The Stupidity Of One Brain Multiplied By Twelve.

Men Whose Lives Are Doubtful Want A Strong Government And A Hot Religion

Good Health! Whenever You Go Out Of Doors, Draw The Chin In, Carry The Crown Of Your Head High, And Fill The Lungs To The Utmost; Drink In Sunshine; Greet Your Friends With A Smile, And Put Soul Into Every Handclasp. Do Not Fear Being Misunderstood And Never Waste A Minute Thinking About Your Enemies.

Thinking About You

Football: A Sport That Bears The Same Relation To Education That Bullfighting Does To Agriculture.

The Man Who Craves Disciples And Wants Followers Is Always More Or Less Of A Charlatan. The Man Of Genuine Worth And Insight Wants To Be Himself; And He Wants Others To Be Themselves, Also.

I Am Not Sure Just What The Unpardonable Sin Is, But I Believe It Is A Disposition To Evade The Payment Of Small Bills.

I Believe In The Motherhood Of God.

If Your Religion Does Not Change You, Then You Had Better Change Your Religion.

The Teacher Is One Who Makes Two Ideas Grow Where Only One Grew Before.

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

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

The Great Big Black Things That Have Loomed Against The Horizon Of My Life, Threatening To Devour Me, Simply Loomed And Nothing More. The Things That Have Really Made Me Miss My Train Have Always Been Sweet, Soft, Pretty, Pleasant Things Of Which I Was Not In The Least Afraid.

Picture In Your Mind The Able, Earnest, Useful Person You Desire To Be, And The Thought You Hold Is Hourly Transforming You Into That Particular Individual You So Admire

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

It Is The Weak Man Who Urges Compromise - Never The Strong Man.

Optimism Is A Kind Of Heart Stimulant - The Digitalis Of Failure.

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.

Genius Is The Capacity Of Avoiding Hard Work.

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