"I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat."
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"For someone like me, who loves to sweat and push herself, it's a challenge to slow down, to sit, to breathe and hold poses."
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"This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it."
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"Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat."
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"The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror."
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"Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don't do it."
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"Before you sweat the logistics of focus: first, care. Care intensely.... Obsessing over the slipperiness of focus, bemoaning the volume of those devil "distractions," and constantly reassessing which shiny new "system" might make your life suddenly seem more sensible - these are all terrifically useful warning flares that you may be suffering from a deeper, more fundamental problem.... Know in your heart that what you're making or doing matters... First, care. Then, as you'll happily and unavoidably discover, all that "focus" business has a peculiar way of taking care of itself."
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"While marriage is many things, it is anything but sentimental. Marriage is glorious but hard. It's a burning joy and strength, and yet it is also blood, sweat, and tears; humbling defeats and exhausting victories."
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"Success is dependent on the glands - the sweat glands."
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"When I was younger I'd berate myself: You're fat, you're not a good dancer, you'll never have a boyfriend. I don't sweat that kind of stuff anymore. Now every day is a miracle. I've also learned that if something is painful or upsetting, you shouldn't hide from it. You should make it part of your life instead."
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"It is the superfluous things for which men sweat."
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"Improved productivity means less human sweat, not more."
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"Millions of our fellow human beings continue to live as contemporary slaves, victims of abominable practices like human trafficking, forced labour and sexual exploitation. Countless children are forced to become soldiers, work in sweat shops or are sold by desperate families. Women are brutalized and traded like commodities. Entire households and villages labour under debt bondage."
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"The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him."
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"The more women walk around in sweat pants, the harder it is to tell who's out jogging and who's running away from a mugger."
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"I wanna be your t-shirt when it's wet, I wanna be your shower when you sweat."
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"Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have never looked at them without a feeling of anguish. But deep in my heart I know that the most wretched among you have seen a divine face emerge from their darkness. That is the face you are asked to see."
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"Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when we do, through training, experience, and hard sweat of the mind."
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"In the day we sweat it out on the streets on a runaway American dream."
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"All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears."
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