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- Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.
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- In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
- Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
- Marian Evans
- The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.
- Richard Rybolt
- Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986), in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)
- Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
- Elie Wiesel (1928 - )
- A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper.
- Barry Neil Kaufman
- Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
- Sam Ewing
- I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
- John D. Rockefeller (1839 - 1937)
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