"Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly."

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"Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly."

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"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"Success comes before work only in the dictionary."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"Planting flowers in a desert is more productive than imparting wisdom to fools."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"It is naive to think that success will drop into our lives like manna from heaven."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"You can do nothing you put your heart into it."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"I worked hard to meet his eyes, even though they were the kind of pretty that's hard to look at.."

John Green, American Author

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"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."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Do your best, don't worry about the results of your test."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"No triumph without a try."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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