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Andrew Carnegie
Age: 83 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 25
Died: 1919
Died: August 11
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Economist
Entrepreneur
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Philanthropist
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Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
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And there is no use whatever, gentlemen, trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
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The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train.
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Men who reach decisions promptly usually have the capacity to move with definiteness of purpose in other circumstances.
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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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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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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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I demand riches in definite terms I have a definite plan for acquiring richesI am engaged in carrying out my plan, and I am giving an equivalent,in useful service, of the value of those riches I demand.
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There are two types of people who never achieve very much in their lifetimes. One is the person who won't do what he or she is told to do, and the other is the person who does no more than he or she is told to do.
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The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim.
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Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it.
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There is little success where there is little laughter.
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Give me a man with an average ability but a burning desire to succeed and I will give you a winner in exchange every time.
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Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. ~Germaine Greer
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You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.
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