"Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves."
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"Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think."
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"Strength and strength's will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls."
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"One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad."
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"I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can."
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"No man ever did or can do a great work alone."
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"The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary"
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"Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it."
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"Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion, constantly preaching that this world is full of misery, but the next world would be beautiful - or not, as the case may be - has forced on men the thought of fear where otherwise there might have been the happy abandon of nature."
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"Theology is Classified Superstition."
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"Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things."
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"Don't make excuses, make good."
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"Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you"
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"Real life is in love, laughter, and work."
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"We are not punished for our sins, but by them."
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"The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight in one blow, to live eternity in an hour."
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"Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure."
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"Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token"
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"A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour."
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"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street."
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