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In order to have friends, you must first be one.
Elbert Hubbard
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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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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.
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Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.
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Dogma is a lie reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe that they believe what someone else believes.
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A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
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Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
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Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.
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All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.
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