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A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
Elbert Hubbard
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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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There have always existed three ways of keeping the people loving and loyal. One is to leave them alone, to trust them and not to interfere. This plan, however, has very seldom been practised, because the politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked, and something must be done to make it stand quiet.
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The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
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Do not go out of your way to do good whenever it comes your way. Men who make a business of doing good to others are apt to hate others in the same occupation. Simply be filled with the thought of good, and it will radiate you do not have to bother about it, any more than you need trouble about your digestion.
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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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We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.
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Theology is Classified Superstition.
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The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.
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Luck is tenacity of purpose.
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I believe in the Motherhood of God.
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Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
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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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Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision!
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So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
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Play needs direction as well as work.
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Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.
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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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Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.
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Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.
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A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.
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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
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