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Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got.
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The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of…
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The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul, he shucks…
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The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when all strength…
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On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.
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The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
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The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel…
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If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not…
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Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work…
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F@*# self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the hell-spawned ooze-pit of Resistance from which it crawled. I…
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The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for…
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The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle.
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What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.
— Horatio Nelson
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But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is,…
— Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
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Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people…
— Sun Tzu
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Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation...
— Ludwig von Mises
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Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who remain proud…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety…
— Winston Churchill
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The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.
— Winifred Holtby
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Our national policies will not be revoked or modified, even for scientists. If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of…
— Adolf Hitler
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I…
— Bertrand Russell
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Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it…
— Charles Darwin
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But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or…
— Robert Boyle
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Nature abhors annihilation.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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