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It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.
Elbert Hubbard
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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Illinois
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Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.
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If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
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When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that...the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.
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The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.
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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
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Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.
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