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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
Topic: Ability
Source: None
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The question "Who ought to be boss?" is like as "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
Topic: Ability
Source: None
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.
Topic: Business
Source: None
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A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Topic: Business
Source: None
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Thinking is the hardest work there is. Which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
Source: None
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Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Topic: Crime
Source: None
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Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Topic: Difficulties
Source: None
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What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the
dark.
Topic: Evil
Source: in the London "Observer"
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There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.
Topic: Fools
Source: None
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My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Topic: Friendship
Source: None
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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Topic: Grief
Source: None
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History is more or less bunk.
Topic: History
Source: in the "Chicago Tribune"
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Topic: Knowledge
Source: None
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Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right
Topic: Obstacles
Source: None
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Topic: Obstacles
Source: None
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I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
Topic: Possibilities
Source: None
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If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Topic: Security
Source: None
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The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.
Topic: Wage
Source: None
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