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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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Good health! Whenever you go out of doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of your head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost drink in sunshine greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclasp. Do not fear being misunderstood and never waste a minute thinking about your enemies.
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Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others
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Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.
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Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously
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Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.
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Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
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Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.
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God is good, there is no devil but fear.
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It is only life and love that give love and life.
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If you don't advertise yourself you will be advertised by your loving enemies.
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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 secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
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If you work for a man, in Heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply your bread and butter, work for him, stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents.
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Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
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Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.
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Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion
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Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
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I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
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God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.
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