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A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Committees and Meetings
Elbert Hubbard

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Failure
Elbert Hubbard

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A person born with an instinct for poverty.
Poetry and Poets
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A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
Pessimism
Elbert Hubbard

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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Memory
Elbert Hubbard

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Allow motion to equal emotion.
Action
Elbert Hubbard

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An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.
Miracles
Elbert Hubbard

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An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.
Executives
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Blessed is that man who has found his work.
Work
Elbert Hubbard

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Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
Character
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Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
Charity
Elbert Hubbard

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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Music
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Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
Habit
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Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
Dignity
Elbert Hubbard

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
Life and Living
Elbert Hubbard

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Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed -- there's so little competition.
Competition
Elbert Hubbard

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Every life is its own excuse for being.
Existence
Elbert Hubbard

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
Failure
Elbert Hubbard

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.
Work
Elbert Hubbard

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.
Freedom
Elbert Hubbard

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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Stupidity
Elbert Hubbard

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
Work
Elbert Hubbard

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Give us a religion that will help us to live -- we can die without assistance.
Religion
Elbert Hubbard

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God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Achievement
Elbert Hubbard

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Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.
Gossip
Elbert Hubbard

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun