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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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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we…
— Samuel Butler
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We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to…
— John le Carre
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What can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old years…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands.
— Unknown Author
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Maybe if we lie down our brains will work.
— Jerry Seinfeld
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most…
— William Cowper
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
— Eric Hoffer
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If to die honorably is the greatest Part of virtue, for us fate's done her best. Because we fought to crown Greece…
— Simonides of Ceos
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... fighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we are going to do with marriage when we get there-because we…
— Masha Gessen
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While we lie tumbling in the hay.
— William Shakespeare
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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk…
— Andrew Napolitano
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