"I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred."
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"Truth, in its struggles for recognition, passes through four distinct stages. First, we say it is damnable, dangerous, disorderly, and will surely disrupt society. Second, we declare it is heretical, infidelic and contrary to the Bible. Third, we say it is really a matter of no importance either one way or the other. Fourth, we aver that we have always upheld it and believed it."
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"Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide."
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"The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others."
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"Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is"
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"Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell."
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"We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess."
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"The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion"
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"Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done."
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"The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it."
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"There is no failure except the failure of trying."
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"Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated."
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"Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one."
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"Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them."
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"Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart."
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"Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole."
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"A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join."
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"A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are."
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"Postponement: The father of failure."
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"The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off."
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