"Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never."
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"God always strives together with those who strive."
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"Out of clutter, find simplicity."
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"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble."
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"Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within."
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"The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination."
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"Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet."
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"O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort."
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"I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have."
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"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."
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"I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else."
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"I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being."
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"A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun."
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"Everything yields to diligence."
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"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."
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"Don't let nobody take care of your business better than you."
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"The greatest teacher I know is the job itself."
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"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art."
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"There are two ways of making yourself stand out from the crowd. One is by having a job so big you can go home before the bell rings if you want to. The other is by finding so much to do that you must stay after the others have gone. The one who enjoys the former once took advantage of the latter."
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"Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind."
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