"Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others."

Work, Joy

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"Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others."

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"With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!"

Terence Stamp, British Actor

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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."

Harri Holkeri, Finnish Politician

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"The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections."

John H. Speke, British Explorer

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"If you can find your perfect job, create one."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Salary is the currency that is gotten from mortgaging your life and time."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard."

John Powell, American Composer

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"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."

Doug Larson, American Cartoonist

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"Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all."

Martin Kippenberger, German Artist

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"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that."

Possibility, Open, Spirit, Will

"No one nor anything can silence me."

Silence,

"We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature, and to bring life into harmony with the laws of nature."

Life, Nature, Day, Harmony

"Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others."

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"No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments."

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"Elements which are similar as regards their chemical properties have atomic weights which are either of nearly the same value (eg. Pt, Ir, Os) or which increase regularly (eg. K, Ru, Cs)."

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"There is nothing in this world that I fear to say."

Fear, Nothing, World

"We must expect the discovery of many as yet unknown elements-for example, elements analogous to aluminum and silicon- whose atomic weight would be between 65 and 75."

Discovery, Example, Weight

"I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom."

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"The magnitude of the atomic weight determines the character of the element, just as the magnitude of the molecule determines the character of a compound body."

Character, Body, Weight