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La peur de l'ennui est la seule excuse du travail. - Boredom is the only excuse for work.
Jules Renard
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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?
Northern Exposure
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People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Well I say what any decent poet would say if you dared ask him to analyse his work: if you see it, darling, then it's there.
Freddie Mercury
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If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
St. Francis of Assisi
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A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
Chuck Palahniuk
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[Of the parralels between the railways and the church] both had their heyday in the mid-nineteenth century; both own a great deal of Gothic-style architecture which is expensive to maintain; both are regularly assailed by critics; and both are firmly convinced that they are the best means of getting man to his ultimate destination.
Reverend W. Awdry
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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.
Anne Lamott
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What other people think about me is not my business.
Michael J. Fox
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Alva Edison
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Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.
Will Rogers
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Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.
Publilius Syrus
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The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.
John Lennon
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Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due.
William Ralph Inge
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We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books.
Douglas Adams
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I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
Douglas Adams
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The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.
Rensis Likert
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The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.
Mata Hari
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A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?
Confucious
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Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want.
Robert Bringle
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The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the wall of our own homes.
Harold B. Lee
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It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
J. R .R. Tolkien
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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty.
Woodrow Wilson
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INCUMBENT, n. A person of the liveliest interest to the outcumbents.
Ambrose Bierce
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Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
Alexis Carrel
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Virtue has its own reward, but no box office.
Mae West
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There are no office hours for leaders.
Cardinal James Gibbons
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The action of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham Lincoln
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If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.
Benjamin Franklin
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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
Woody Allen
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Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.
Robert Byrne
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
James Thurber
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
Betty Friedan
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To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so.
Fuller
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Apathy isn't it. We can do something. So flower power didn't work. So what. We start again.
John Lennon
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Always remember, you can never finish work, but work can finish you.
Louis Keisler
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