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The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.
Elbert Hubbard
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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
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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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Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.
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The man who has no problems is out of the game.
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The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion
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Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
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There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.
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A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
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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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Talent does things tolerably well genius does then intolerably better
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Life without absorbing occupation is hell joy consists in forgetting life.
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Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
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The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.
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Unleash your TRAVEL BEAST .... explore the world. It's time to begin your next adventure! No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.
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War is the sure result of the existence of armed men. That country which maintains a large standing army will sooner or later have a war. The man who prides himself on fisticuffs is going, some day, to meet a man who considers himself the better man, and they will test the issue.
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It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.
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The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
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You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting. You can lead a boy to college but you cannot make him think.
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