Elbert Hubbard - People Quotes

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I believe more in the goodness of bad people than i do in the badness of good people.

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Good people are only half as good, and bad people only half as bad, as other people regard them.

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There have always existed three ways of keeping the people loving and loyal. One is to leave them alone, to trust them and not to interfere. This plan, however, has very seldom been practised, because the politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked, and something must be done to make it stand quiet.

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What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.

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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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Literary people of the opposite sex do not really love each other. All they really desire is to read their manuscript aloud to a receptive listener.

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Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.

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The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.

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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 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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The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.

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SCIENCE: 1. The knowledge of the common people classified and carried one step further. 2. Accurate organized knowledge grounded on fact. 3. Classified superstition.

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I pray that I may never meddle, interfere, dictate, give advice that is not wanted, or assist when my services are not needed. If I can help people, I'll do it by giving them a chance to help themselves; and if I can uplift or inspire, let it be by example, inference and suggestion, rather than by injunction and dictation. That is to say, I desire to be Radiant -- to Radiate Life!

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