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"You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it."
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"Nothing should lead you aside from your planned route."

"If you desire to be productive with your time, you should select a maximum of two things that are your highest priority, and plan time to work on them."

"To develop stronger focus, develop a greater reason or meaning for your goal."

"Think of success. Dream of Success. Live for success."

"The quality of time you are able to concentrate and use to produce values is what determines your greatness."

"It does not matter how long it takes to reach the goal. With persistent focus, commitment and enthusiasm, you will make it a reality."

"If you must make your time productive, then begin to view time in its most urgent form; in seconds and in minutes."
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"Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age."

"Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and entertaining to consider that at least once in the world's history those words might have been said with complete conviction, and that was on the eve of the Resurrection."

"(One character on another:) "Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his face?"

"And upon his return, Gherkins, who had always considered his uncle as a very top-hatted sort of person, actually saw him take from his handkerchief-drawer an undeniable automatic pistol.It was at this point that Lord Peter was apotheosed from the state of Quite Decent Uncle to that of Glorified Uncle."

"We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served."

"Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject."

"You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a lesson to him," said Miss Hillyard. "It didn't pay, did it? Say he sacrificed his professional honour for the women and children we hear so much about -- but in the end it left him worse of."But that," said Peter, "was only because he committed the extra sin of being found out."

"The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all."
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