"A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it."

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"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

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"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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