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"We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done."
"Great ideas originate in the muscles."
"When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious."
"Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things."
"Nonviolence is fine as long as it works."
"after several months of probation work, standing on my feet some ten to twelve hours a day, I decided that as a nurse I was a pretty good entertainer."
"It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills."
"Sometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too great a sacrifice to my work."
""I could have done it in a much more complicated way," said the Red Queen, immensely proud."
"Work is a necessary evil to be avoided."
"Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do."
"Every day in the mirror I watch death at work."
"I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy."
"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."
"Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men."
"Don't shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world's work, for it all affects you and yours."
"We must infer that all things are produced more plentifully and easily and of a better quality when one man does one thing which is natural to him and does it at the right time, and leaves other things."
"When you offer a vibration, the Universal forces are working in concert with each other in order to satisfy you. You really are the center of the Universe."
"He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong."
"You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world"
