"An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation."
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"If you work for a man, in Heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply your bread and butter, work for him, stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents."
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"A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''"
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"The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic."
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"One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident."
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"The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life."
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"I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me."
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"Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance."
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"I believe in the Motherhood of God."
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"Time is an illusion-to orators."
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"I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish."
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"The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it."
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"If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves."
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"God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him."
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"Some one has said that we are moving so fast that when plans are being made to perform some great feat, these plans are broken into by a youth who enters and says, “I have done it.""
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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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"No book is of much importance; the vital thing is, What do you yourself think?"
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"It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing."
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"The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve."
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"Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong."
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