"Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor."
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"You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude, but they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you."
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"One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat...nor make love for eight hours..."
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"Work while others are wishing."
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"You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery, and you create a feeling of strength in reserve."
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"An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius."
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"Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction."
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"I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful."
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"One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire."
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"Almost anything is easier to get into than to get out of."
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"If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected."
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"It seems we always exceed even our own expectations-after a lot of hard work, though!"
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"We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist."
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"Rest in reason. Move in Passion."
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"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."
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"The world belongs to the energetic."
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"If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great."
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"The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any."
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"Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work."
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"To make a living is no longer enough. Work also has to make a life."
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