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"When I feel bad, I work. When I have problems, when I'm depressed, when I'm bored with life, I sit down to my work. There are probably other prescriptions, but I don't know them. Or they don't work for me. You want my advice -- here it is Go and work. Thank God that people like you and me need only paper and pencil to work." »Strugatsky
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"Excessive literary production is a social offense." »George Eliot, a.k.a. Mary Ann Evans
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"Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world." »Samuel Johnson
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"Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." »Vince Lombardi
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"Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." »Vince Lombardi
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"Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth." »Mark Twain
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"When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow." »Anais Nin
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"As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook." »Joseph Conrad
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"work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy." »Kahlil Gibran
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"I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike-and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two-are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked." »Harold Bloom
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"Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers." »Leo C. Rosten
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"If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done." »Dale Carnegie
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"Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority--literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political." »Ignazio Silone, The God That Failed (1950)
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"If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work." »Ogden Nash
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"If we work upon marble, it will perish if we work upon brass, time will efface it if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity." »Daniel Webster
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"Is a preface exquisitely written? No literary morsel is more delicious. Is the author inveterately dull? It is a kind of preparatory information, which may be very useful. It argues a deficiency of taste to turn over an elaborate preface unread: for it is the attar of the author?s roses, every drop distilled at an immense cost. It is the reason of the reasoning, and the folly of the foolish." »Isaac D?Israeli
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"No man is the wiser for his learning. It may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon, but wit and wisdom are born with a man." »John Selden
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"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself." »Charles Baudelaire
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"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation." »Rainer Maria Rilke
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"For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation." »Rainer Maria Rilke
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"For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation." »Rainer Maria Rilke
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"...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work." »John Ruskin
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"You must keep sending work out you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist." »Isaac Asimov
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"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment." »Robert Benchley
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"You must work--- we must all work To make the world worthy of its children." »Pablo Casals
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"Do your work not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishings sake--that little more which is worth all the rest." »Dean Briggs
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"Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing." »Thomas Alva Edison
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"I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work." »William Ernest Hocking
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"If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work." »Kahlil Gibran
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