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When in doubt, don't.
When in doubt, don't.
The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an read more
The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.
Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve read more
Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.
When two men share an umbrella, both of them get wet.
When two men share an umbrella, both of them get wet.
It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state read more
Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.
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.
Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is read more
Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others.
I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known.
I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known.
