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If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.

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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They're realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.
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The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
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Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
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Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
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Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
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Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.
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A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
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The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.
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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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Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.
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It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.
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I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can.
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Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.
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If you don't advertise yourself you will be advertised by your loving enemies.
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