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"I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort."
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"Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."

"Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly."

"Life is just repeated attempts at trying to do better."

"All work is seed sown. It grows and spreads and sows itself anew."

"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."

"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."

"If you invest nothing, the reward is worth little."

"The whole world's effort of working hard goes to waste. Just as the bull [that turns the wheels on the oil mill] gets a piece of oil-cake (as a reward), the wife gives the husband a piece of handvo (savory lentil and rice cake), and so the work continues. All day long, one is producing like the bull in the oil mill."

"The bigger the 'flat' [apartment], the harder one has to work. If the 'flat' is worth six hundred thousand, then he has to work six times as hard. If it is three hundred thousand, he has to work three times over. One simply has to keep on working hard, doesn't he?"
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"And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure."

"We were saving, saving, saving then going to France and blowing the money eating. She was a nurse and had never experienced fine dining but she loved it, too. Our mates thought it absurd."

"But most is all to do with work. There are aspects of work that are enjoyable, that you could call a hobby."
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