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If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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Bruce Barton
Age: 80 †
Born: 1886
Born: January 1
Died: 1967
Died: January 1
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Entrepreneur
Essayist
Legislator
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Politician
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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success.
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Jesus brought forth men's greatest efforts by the promise of obstacles not rewards.
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The most important thing about getting somewhere is starting right where we are.
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The Bible rose to the place it now occupies because it deserved to rise to that place, and not because God sent anybody with a box of tricks to prove its divine authority.
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If advertising encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony.
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As a profession advertising is young as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.
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I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.
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Much brass has been sounded and many cymbals tinkled in the name of advertising but the advertisements which persuade people to act are written by men who have an abiding respect for the intelligence of their readers, and a deep sincerity regarding the merits of the goods they have to sell.
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A man may be down, but he is never out.
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The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.
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If you want to know if your brain is flabby, feel your legs.
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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
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If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations low, taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are, you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped.
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It is said that great leaders are born, not made. The saying is true to this degree, that no man can persuade people to do what he wants them to do, unless he genuinely likes people, and believes that what he wants them to do is to their own advantage.
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