"Hoping gets you nothing in life. If you want more in life it’s your job to earn it."
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"In work, do what you enjoy."
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"It doesn't matter if I failed. At least I passed the concept on to others. Even if I don't succeed, someone will succeed."
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"Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse."
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"I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty."
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"No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early."
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"Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do."
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"Carpe every damn diem."
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"Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock."
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"Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built."
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"Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged."
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"Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work."
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"I'm a working man in my prime cleaning windows."
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"One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation."
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"There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day."
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"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."
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"People are most creative when they care about their work and they're stretching their skills."
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"The harder I work, the luckier I become."
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"Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind."
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"The benefits of becoming fluent in a foreign tongue are as underestimated as the difficulty is overestimated. Thousands of theoretical linguists will disagree, but I know from research and personal experimentation with more than a dozen languages that (1) adults can learn languages much faster than children when constant 9-5 work is removed and that (2) it is possible to become conversationally fluent in any language in six months or less. At four hours per day, six months can be whittled down to less than three months."
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