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"The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself."
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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."

"Love by the sweat of thy brow.Not through whispered words of hollow sound or lofty dreams ne'er substance bound that more than oft do run aground. Nay, love with mighty, blistered hands that turn the soil and carve the land. A bearer of toil and golden band. Be strong! A founder of the feast! Protective knight who slays the beast! For promises and vows aloud are naught but wispy veneer shroud like cobwebs, frail, the airy words and wooing fail. So work, my darling. Toil as proof. Thy loyal heart be drained of youth and yet beat on, incessant sound. Both feet take root within the ground, and service be thy kingly crown.Love by the sweat of thy brow."

"Your life content reduces with employment."

"A specialist's mind is a slave to his specialization."
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"The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?"


"Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe."


"A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast."


"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."


"Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures."


"People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses."
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