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Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.

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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Never
Men

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The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our hills.
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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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Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.
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True love is not only blind, but too gallant to ask a lady's age.
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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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Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
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The easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends.
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In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity tomorrow some other fellow's.
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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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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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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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Give fools the first and women the last word.
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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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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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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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There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.
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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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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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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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When a fellow's got what he set out for in this world, he should go off into the woods for a few weeks now and then to make sure that he's still a man, and not a plug-hat and a frock-coat and a wad of bills.
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