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Harry Allen Overstreet Inspirational Quotes (10)

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The immature mind hops from one thing to another the mature mind seeks to follow through.
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Time the devourer of everything.
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The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself.
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The average citizen expresses pride in the American Bill of Rights and then seeks to protect his real estate by restrictive covenants.
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The mature mind seeks to follow through.
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The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. The mind that can do that has a powerful leverage on his human world.
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If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures.
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A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race.
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The happiest thing that can be said about democracy... is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk a long period of confusion and mixed purposes for the sake of giving man a chance to grow up in mind and responsibility.
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Recreation is not a secondary concern for a democracy. It is a primary concern, for the kind of recreation a people make for themselves determines the kind of people they become and the kind of society they build.
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