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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.: George MacDonald (1824 - 1905)
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
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Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.: Ivan Pavlov (1849 - 1936)
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The key to non-anxious sermon-writing is that it’s not about me. It’s about the congregation. I honor the fact that the listeners bring more to the sermon than I do. I remind myself of the hundreds of times someone says, 'I loved how you said…' and then tell me things that they heard that were nowhere in my text and that I never said. But they heard what they needed to hear.: Reverend Sean Parker Dennison, Ministrare, 04-07-2006
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Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. Fat commissions are good, but not always easy to come by, and each new painting takes its time. So we need to find every way possible to earn extra income from our work.: Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.: Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908 - 1972), "Keep the Faith, Baby!", 1967
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.: Bible, New Testament, James, Chapter 1, Verse 12
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Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there’s less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what’s the fun in eating anything you want to?: Tom Hanks (1956 - ), Esquire, June 2006
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People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.: Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005
There are worse things than looking stupid. Sleeping through life is one of them.: Laura Preble, The Queen Geek Social Club, 2006
You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 02-23-10
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It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
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When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.: Leo Burnett