"Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures."
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"Plough deep while sluggards sleep."
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"The secret to success is... is no secret. It's called work your Ass off and find a way to add more value to peoples lives than anyone else does!"
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"Work to learn. Don't work for money."
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"It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it."
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"The difference between work and play is only a matter of attitude. Work, fully done, is play."
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"By the work one knows the workman."
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"When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results."
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"Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food for winter; but just in the same way they did, when Solomon referred the sluggard to them as patterns of prudence. Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship."
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"I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids."
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"At the end of every hard day, people find some reason to believe."
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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
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"The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first."
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"Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it."
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"Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it."
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"Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well."
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"I'm all for ERA. I want to see women equal to men - not so damn superior like they've been."
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"There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."
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"He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too."
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"And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them."
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