“There does not seem to be anything to do.”
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Elbert Green Hubbard
Elbert Green Hubbard was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. Hubbard is known best as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts movement.
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culture · American writer and philosopher (1856–1915) · journalist · philosopher · publisher · writer · also Elbert Green Hubbard, Elbert Hubbard, Ali Baba, Fra Elbertus, Hubbard
Born 19 June 1856 · Died 7 May 1915 · Q734329
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“If you are going to reform the world you had better begin with yourself, and there will be one rogue less in the world.”
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1915· 12 entries
Died 1915-05-07.
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While at sea 11 miles (18 km) off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland, the ship was hit by a single torpedo and sunk by the German U-boat U-20
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Left with his wife on a voyage to Europe
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Hubbard went directly to the White House and pleaded with Woodrow Wilson's personal secretary, Joseph P
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“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”
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“Variant: The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.”
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“Variant: In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.”
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“Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.”
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“Qualquer coisa positiva é melhor do que nada negativo.”
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“Life is just one damn thing after another.”
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“Do not take life too seriously – you will never get out of it alive.”
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“Find your happiness in your work or you will never know what happiness is”
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1912· 1 entry
The passenger liner RMS Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg
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1908· 1 entry
Hubbard was the main speaker at the annual meeting of The Society in Dedham for Apprehending Horse Thieves
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1856· 1 entry
Born 1856-06-19.
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