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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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The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
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Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
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All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
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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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I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
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A good front is half the battle in love or war.
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Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others
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The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.
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Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.
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Enthusiasm is like having two right hands.
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Opportunities for education should be within the reach of every individual, not for the lucky few.
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Play needs direction as well as work.
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It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
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Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
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It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.
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All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men all gentlemen all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist.
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Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
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The great Big Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was not in the least afraid.
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Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion and in it's larger sense is the one thing in life worth doing.
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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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