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"A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one."
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"If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union."

"The vicious circle of life is employment."

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, 'We did this ourselves.'"

"We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity."
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"Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement."


"To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies."


"Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening."


"As in most families, the mere struggle to have anything of one's own, to be one's self at all, creates an element of strain that keeps everybody almost at the breaking point."


"And I advise ye to think well, he told her It's better to be a stray dog in this world than a man without money. I've tried it both ways, and I know. A poor man stinks, and God hates him."


"It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of."


"The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world."


"Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything."
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