"Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves."

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Source : Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard: Olympians”

Elbert Hubbard

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“Speaking as a writer, I'm not interested in trends, I want to write books that are honest, with characters as true to the inner world of the story as I can make them.”
“Self-esteem is different than conceit. Conceit is the weirdest disease in the world. It makes everyone sick except the one who has it.”
“A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare.”

Source : "Quotes for the Air Force Logistician" by Air Force Logistics Management Agency, p. 115, 2001.
“One would naturally expect that the Lord Jesus Christ would be sufficiently important to receive ample notice in the literature of his time, and that extensive biographical material would be available. He was observed by multitudes of people, and his own followers numbered into the hundreds (1 Cor. 15:6), whose witness was still living in the middle of the first century. As a matter of fact, the amount of information concerning him is comparatively meager. Aside from the four Gospels, and a few scattered allusions in the epistles, contemporary history is almost silent concerning him.”
“When I first moved to New York I wanted to be a dancer, I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence.”
“The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.”

Source : Anna Julia Cooper (1990). “A Voice From the South”, p.70, Oxford University Press
“If the investors themselves are not sophisticated, if they themselves are not putting a lot of their own money to work, if they themselves don't understand the continuum of capital and how different parts of the capital structures react differently, then they're basically worthless. They're not going to give great advice to these entrepreneurs who then need it. So that is unfortunately the cycle we're in and we have to break the cycle.”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com
“Emotion is what hip-hop thrives on. Don't you want your music to have emotion in it? People like to always throw some negative cloud over it. Doesn't even make sense.”

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