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When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.
Andrew Carnegie
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Andrew Carnegie
Age: 83 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 25
Died: 1919
Died: August 11
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A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.
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Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends-the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions.
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It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.
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The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
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There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
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If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
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Any idea that is held in the mind, that is emphasized, that is either feared or revered, will begin at once to cloth itself in the most convenient and appropriate form available.
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It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive of good to girls and boys who have good within them and ability and ambition to develop it as the founding of a public library.
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Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.
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Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
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I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
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People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
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Pittsburgh entered the core of my heart when I was a boy and cannot be torn out.
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Concentrate your energy, your thoughts and your capital.
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There is little success where there is little laughter.
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The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.
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If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained.
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Young man, make your name worth something.
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You develop millionaires the way you mine gold. You expect to move tons of dirt to find an ounce of gold, but you don't go into the mine looking for the dirt-you go in looking for the gold.
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Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves.
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