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"I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called."
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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."
"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."
"A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."
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