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William Shakespeare


Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war.

Lord Byron, Stanzas to Augusta


In the desert a fountain is springing,
In the wide waste there still is a tree,
And a bird in the solitude singing,
Which speaks to my spirit of thee.

Felix Frankfurter


Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

John Phillips Marquand


It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.

John Oliver Hobbes


Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - if they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.

Srully D. Blotnick


The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their 'luck' arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.

American


Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.

Socrates


I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

Strugatsky


When I feel bad, I work. When I have problems, when I'm depressed, when I'm bored with life, I sit down to my work. There are probably other prescriptions, but I don't know them. Or they don't work for me. You want my advice -- here it is Go and work. Thank God that people like you and me need only paper and pencil to work.

L. Ron Hubbard, Book: Dianetics 55


The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.

Charles Buxton


Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.

Norman Vincent Peale


We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

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