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I believe in the Motherhood of God.

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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
Journalist
Philosopher
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Bloomington
Illinois
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
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Government is a kind of legalized pillage.
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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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Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.
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Time is an illusion-to orators.
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There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
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Nothing is permanent but change.
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Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.
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Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion
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We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.
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Live truth instead of professing it.
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All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
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The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.
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Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
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Those who create beauty are also they who possess it.
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A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.
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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
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A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
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