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It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us.

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It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism.

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Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

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The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.

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Don't mind criticism. If it is untrue, disregard it; if unfair, keep from irritation; if it is ignorant, smile; if it is justified it is not criticism, learn from it.

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All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism.

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Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.

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Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.

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The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.

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You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives

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People do more from custom than from reason.

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To my customer: I may not have the answer, but I'll find it. I may not have the time, but I'll make it. I may not be the biggest, but I'll be the most committed to your success.

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When handling a customers complaint, remember: If you can't fix it, don't drop it.

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Your customers will get better when you do.

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If we don't take care of the customer... somebody else will.

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It is not enough to give the customer excellent service. You must subtly make him aware of the great service he is getting.

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The customer is our reason for being here.

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The customer is the final inspector.

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CYNIC: One who not only reads bitter lessons from the past, but who is prematurely disappointed with the future.

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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

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Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

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There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted.

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We fear not death. That gloomy night, that pale-faced moon, and the affrighted stars that hurried through the sky, can witness that we fear not death.

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When death overtakes us; all that we have is left to others; all that we are we take with us.

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To fear death is to misunderstand life.

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Those who have lived a good life do not fear death, but meet it calmly, and even long for it in the face of great suffering. But those who do not have a peaceful conscience, dread death as though life means nothing but physical torment. The challenge is to live our life so that we will be prepared for death when it comes.

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Those to whom we say farewell, are welcomed by others.

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It was once said that if you took all of the people who fell asleep in church and laid them end to end they would be more comfortable.

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God's retirement plan is out of this world

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A good man dies when a boy goes wrong.

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If one wants to get out and stay out of debt he should act his wage.

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Running into debt isn't so bad. It's running into creditors that hurts.

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If someone takes your time, it is the only debt that can't be repaid.

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Birds have bills too, and they keep on singing

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Buying on the installment plan makes the months shorter and the years longer.

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If you've made up your mind you can do something, you're absolutely right. If you've made up your mind you can't do something, you're absolutely right.

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Good deeds from good intentions flow; but good intentions only; build for us a place below.

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O Lord, how many read the Word, and yet from vice are not deterred.

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The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention

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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

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A delay is better than disaster.

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Convince a man of what he wants, and he'll move heaven and earth to get it.

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A woman never knows what she really wants until she fins out what her husband cannot afford.

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Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.

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If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

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No person can arise above his real desire. Desires are of value only when they drive us to action. Will and work must accompany desire. Then high resolve is born. Desire is the design that will spurs us into achievement.

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The distance between success and failure can only be measured by one's desire.

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The man who really wants to do something finds a way, the other finds an excuse.

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The more clear you are on what you want, the more power you will have.

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We accomplish things by directing our desires, not by ignoring them.

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In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o clock in the morning, day after day.

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We sow our thoughts and reap our actions. We sow our actions and reap our habits. We sow our habits and reap our character. We sow our character, and we reap our destiny.

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Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination.

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Once while St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden, he was asked, What would you do it you were suddenly to learn that you were to die at sunset today? He replied, I would finish hoeing my garden.

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Dieters -- People that are thick and tired of it

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Nothing arouses more hope than the first four hours of a diet.

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A Christian is like a tea bag -- he's not worth much until he's been through some hot water.

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Difficulties are stepping stones to success.

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If things are natural, they're easy. If they're unnatural they're difficult. I have never met a man who found it difficult to marry, but I have never found a man who found it easy to divorce either.

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Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed; it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel the smooth road.

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When a diplomat says yes he means perhaps; when he says perhaps he means no; when he says no he is no diplomat.

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Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing.

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A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages.

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The man who appeals to the best side of his fellows is rarely disappointed.

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If you think you have trouble supporting a wife, try not supporting her.

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A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, And whom did you consult before coming to me? Only the village druggist, was the answer. And what sort of foolish advice did that numbskull give you? asked the doctor, his tone and manner denoting his contempt for the advice of the layman. Oh, replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, he told me to come and see you.

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The difference between an itch and an allergy is about one hundred bucks.

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The doctor knows what his trained eyes see -- and he says it's the last of the ninth for me. So one more thing while the clouds loom dark and then I must leave this noisy park.

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Feed your faith and doubt will starve to death

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When in charge ponder. When in trouble delegate. When in doubt mumble.

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When in doubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask.

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You can make the dream come true if you wake up and work.

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When you dream alone, with your eyes shut, asleep, that dream is an illusion. But when we dream together, sharing the same dream, awake and with our eyes wide open, then that dream becomes reality!

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Your dreams will come true... if you can see it... if you believe in it... then you can achieve it.

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A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

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Oversleeping will never make one's dreams come true.

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Dreams are free.

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No dreamer is ever to small; no dream is ever to big.

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Like dreams, small creeks grow into mighty rivers.

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If all of our wishes were gratified, many of our dreams would be destroyed.

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His life was a sort of dream, as are most lives with the mainspring left out.

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We act the way we dress. Neglected and untidy clothes reflect a neglected and untidy mind.

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If a woman driver ahead of you signals a left turn, be careful, she may turn left.

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An economist is someone who knows more about money than the people who have it.

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If you took all the economists in the world and laid them end-to-end, they couldn't reach a conclusion

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An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life.

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A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.

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The world is run by C students.

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You can always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him much.

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Education has opened many, many doors. However, there are still innumerable doors shut tight -- unopened yet. These are the doors of the future. Perhaps one of my children will open one of these doors -- I shall help give him the key.

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Education is not received. It is achieved.

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Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.

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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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If nobody dropped out of eighth grade, who would hire the college graduates?

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Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.

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The creative person is usually rebellious. He or she is the survivor of a trauma called education.

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Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them.

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Public school is a place of detention for children placed in the care of teachers who are afraid of the principal, principals who are afraid of the school board, school boards who are afraid of the parents, parents who are afraid of the children, and children who are afraid of nobody.

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The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.

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Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a pick.

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