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"How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII."
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"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?"
"It's not going to be easy, but it's kind of like ripping off a band-aid. Painful for a minute, but it has to be done."
"And certainly both Horses were doing, if not all they could, all they thought they could; which is not quite the same thing."
"They will cry, he will shout but you must sweat."
"For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!"
"Though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till."
"You are only responsible for the effort, not the outcome."
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"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."
"A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done."
"Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print."
"In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record."
"No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe."
"Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions."
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