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Interest is the invention of Satan.
The roots of tobacco plants must go clear through to hell. Satan's principal agent Dyspepsia must have charge of this branch of the vegetable kingdom.
It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the hands of men, who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan.
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
The stomach is the only part of man which can be fully satisfied. The yearning of man's brain for new knowledge and experience and for more pleasant and comfortable surroundings never can be completely met. It is an appetite which cannot be appeased.
We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.
Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
What you are will show in what you do.
Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination
I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.
I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.
Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.
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The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a violent action on the nerve centers, producing degeneration of the cells of the brain, which is quite rapid among boys. Unlike most narcotics, this degeneration is permanent and uncontrollable. I employ no person who smokes cigarettes.
There is no substitute for hard work.
