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Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.
George Horace Lorimer
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George Horace Lorimer
Age: 70 †
Born: 1867
Born: October 6
Died: 1937
Died: October 22
Journalist
Louisville
Kentucky
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If God allows us to remain Methodist, Baptist, or Episcopalian, it may be on account of the unconverted, that they may be without excuse that every type of man may be confronted with a corresponding type of doctrine and of method. Surely there are means adapted to your state, and ministries fitted to your peculiar temperament.
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In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity tomorrow some other fellow's.
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Believe me, it is no time for words when the wounds are fresh and bleeding no time for homilies when the lightning's shaft has smitten, and the man lies stunned and stricken. Then let the comforter be silent let him sustain by his presence, not by his preaching by his sympathetic silence, not by his speech.
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Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second.
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A fellow and his business should be bosom friends in the office and sworn enemies out of it.
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You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
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Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.
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Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them.
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The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college the task is to help him become a self-educating man.
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Having money and buying things with money is a good thing. But also do not forget to check occasionally to lose if you do not buy anything with money or not
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The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.
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After forty years of close acquaintance with it, I've found that work is kind to its friends and harsh to its enemies. It pays the fellow who dislikes it his exact wages, and they're generally pretty small but it gives the man who shines up to it all the money he wants and throws in a heap of fun and satisfaction for good measure.
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It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.
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Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.
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I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.
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The easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends.
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Let patriotism have its high days and freedom its monuments, and let the triumphs of navigators and generals be annually observed but surely, beyond all these, a season that stands for as much to the race as Easter does may well be remembered each year with songs and flowers and with every mark of gratitude and of loftiest jubilation.
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What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.
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Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
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Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.
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