William Feather Quotes
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Loneliness is something you can't walk away from.
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Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought.
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The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.
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The right man can make a good job out of any job.
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Always remember that there is a law of compensation which operates just as infallibly as gravitation, and that victory goes at last where it ought to, and that this is just as true of individuals as of nations.
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One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.
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The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.
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In ability choice education finance majorities people understanding voting A lot of voters always cast their ballot for the candidate who seems to them to be one of the people. That means he must have the same superstitions, the same unbalanced prejudices, and the same lack of understanding of public finances that are characteristic of the majority. A better choice would be a candidate who has a closer understanding and a better education than the majority. Too much voting is based on affability rather than on ability.
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A good man likes a hard boss. I don't mean a nagging boss or a grouchy boss. I mean a boss who insists on things being done right and on time; a boss who is watching things closely enough so that he knows a good job from a poor one. Nothing is more discouraging to a good man than a boss who is not on the job, and who does not know whether things are going well or badly.
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Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.
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The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability
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Control from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak.
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Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.
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It must be terrible to have to live among people and not like human nature.
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We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.
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Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.
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Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.
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The way to get ahead is to start now. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don't know now and that you would not have known next year if you had waited.
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Brains aren't everything, but they're important.
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A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used.
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One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
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We all know that the nation can't divide more than the people produce, but as individuals we try to get more than our share and that's how we get ahead.
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We all find time to do what we really want to do.
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Success makes us intolerant of failure and failure makes us intolerant of success.