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- To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.
- Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
- There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
- Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
- Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
- Marie Ebner von Eschenbach, Aphorisms, 1905
- The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged, 1957
- The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 1966
- Evil is obvious only in retrospect.
- Gloria Steinem (1934 - ), Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, 1983
- Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
- Simone Weil (1909 - 1943), Gravity and Grace, 1947
- It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
- Mary Renault, The Praise Singer, 1978
- The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
- Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973), The Joy of Children, 1964
- We only do well the things we like doing.
- Colette (1873 - 1954), Prisons and Paradise, 1932
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