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A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.
A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones read more
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you, too, can become great.
My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to read more
My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else, if they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers.
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result read more
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.
You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.
You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.
Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to read more
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
