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Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.
It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.
People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
Locked in each human skull is a little world all its own.
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.