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Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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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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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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Dogma is a lie reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe that they believe what someone else believes.
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Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.
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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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When trouble comes, wise men take to their work weak men take to the woods.
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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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To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.
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Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.
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It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
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Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
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The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
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An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
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