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Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.

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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.
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Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.
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The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.
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When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it.
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Time is an illusion-to orators.
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We are punished by our sins, not for them.
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It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.
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Responsibiliti es gravitate to the man who can shoulder them and the power to him who knows how
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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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The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
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The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
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Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
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We are not punished for our sins, but by them.
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I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.
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Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.
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All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.
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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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Real life is in love, laughter, and work.
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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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