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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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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
— Saint Augustine
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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
— Lord Byron
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Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes…
— Louis Aragon
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Adversity makes men remember God.
— Livy
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I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Good order makes men bold, and confusion, cowards.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
— Ovid
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Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free.
— Pat Buchanan
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Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.
— William Hazlitt
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Traveling makes men wiser, but less happy.
— Thomas Jefferson
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. . .nothing is more important than freedom. Nothing is more sacred than freedom. Nothing is greater than freedom. Nothing. . .can…
— Allen Drury
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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