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Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And… — C.S. Lewis
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but simply examining mathematical equations of… — Paul Dirac
Scientific research was much like prospecting: you went out and you hunted, armed with your maps and instruments, but in the ened your preparations did… — Michael Crichton
Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities invaluable because you… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Luck means the hardships and privations which you have not hesitated to endure, the long nights you have devoted to work. Luck means the appointments… — Max O'Rell
I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and… — Maya Angelou
The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself. — H. L. Mencken
I didn't worry about it because I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people in terms of my work,… — Tina Turner
To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work. — Mignon McLaughlin
They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop. — Mignon McLaughlin
Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace… — Henri Frederic Amiel
With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we… — John F. Kennedy
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor. — Moliere
When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work. — John Ruskin
Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one. — Winston Churchill
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned hard. — Carl Sandburg
He who would really benefit mankind must reach them through their work. — Henry Ford
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play. — Moliere

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