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"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."
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"A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth."
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Personal Development

"Ruth Cole was a novelist, novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare what she was going to tell the police - preferably in writing."
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Personal Development

"Speaking about work isn't working."
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Personal Development

"The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary."
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Personal Development

"I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it."
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Personal Development

"One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation."
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Personal Development

"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."
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Personal Development

"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."
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Personal Development

"The fact that you are true child of God doesn't mean you will find gold on the floor when sweeping. You got to dig up the gold!"
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Personal Development
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"Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law."
Concern

"What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted."
Government

"I will not say the fact that there are no European Union observers at an election means that it will not be fair and free."
Fact

"Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice."
Nation

"Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today."
Society

"We will as soon as possible reexamine our laws and policies and eliminate all obstacles to genuine investment."
Adaptation

"We will work to bring an element of stability to the price of oil."
Work

"My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity."
Energy

"Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity."
Power

"Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country."
Business
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