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The Businessman is one who supplies something great and good to the world, and collects from the world for the goods.

Elbert Hubbard

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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.
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Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.
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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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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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A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
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Government is a kind of legalized pillage.
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Be patient with the boys - you are dealing with soul-stuff.
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To supply a thought is mental massage but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.
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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 love we give away is the only love we keep.
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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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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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An American religion: Work, play, breathe, bathe, study, live, laugh, and love.
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Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.
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Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.
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Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it
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If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.
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If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
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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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