William Feather Quotes
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Let us resolve to do the best we can with what we've got.
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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 wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.
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The right man can make a good job out of any job.
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Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.
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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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Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.
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Control from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak.
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One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.
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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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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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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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It must be terrible to have to live among people and not like human nature.
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Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.
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Most of us expect too much from others and not enough from ourselves.
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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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The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability
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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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Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.
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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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No task is so humble that it does not offer an outlet for individuality.
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Success makes us intolerant of failure and failure makes us intolerant of success.