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- Folks who never do more than their paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- 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 never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident
- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
- There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- We believe that if men have the talent to invent need machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
- John Adams (1735 - 1826)
- An Army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
- Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.
- Lance Morrow
- It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle?
- Julian Fellowes, Downton Abbey, Season 2, Episode 1, 2010
- I don't want my own son to die, but this is a war and we must be in it together. High and low. Rich and poor. There can be no special cases because every man at the front is a special case to someone.
- Julian Fellowes, Downton Abbey, Season 2, Episode 7, 2010
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