"A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience."
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"Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true."
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"All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this."
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"Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards."
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"He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow."
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"Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions."
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"The art of winning in business is in working hard - not taking things too seriously."
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"The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness."
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"Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear."
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"Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority."
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"Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific - that is, truthful - must be bolstered up by force, fear and falsehood. Thus we always find slavery and organized religion going hand in hand."
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"Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice."
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"Every man who speaks out loud and clear is tinting the "Zeitgeist." Every man who expresses what he honestly thinks is true is changing the Spirit of the Times. Thinkers help other people to think, for they formulate what others are thinking. No person writes or thinks alone--thought is in the air, but its expression is necessary to create a tangible Spirit of the Times."
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"The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture."
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"Library: A place where the dead lie."
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"This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum."
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"Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly."
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"One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three."
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"Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear."
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"Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not."
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