"He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose."
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"Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character."
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"The easiest job in the world has to be coroner. Surgery on dead people. What's the worst thing that could happen? If everything went wrong, maybe you'd get a pulse."
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"It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him."
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"Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life."
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"Design isn't just about making things beautiful; it's also about making things work beautifully."
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"When you work, work. When you play, play. Don't mix the two."
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"Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation... Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction."
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"I better quit my talking 'cause I told you all I know But please remember, pardner, wherever you may go The people are building a peaceful world, and when the job is done, That'll be the biggest thing that man has ever done."
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"Labor gives birth to ideas."
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"It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich."
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"Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work."
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"He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest."
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"A mistake is simply another way of doing things"
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"Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined."
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"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind."
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"Never turn down a job because you think it's too small, you don't know where it can lead."
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"A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection."
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"We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress."
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"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work."
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