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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."
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Personal Development

"The world system is employment."
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Personal Development

"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."
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Personal Development

"Do not be weary to make money."
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Personal Development

"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
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Personal Development

"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
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Personal Development

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
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Personal Development

"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"
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Personal Development

"Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart."
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Personal Development

"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."
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"For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again."
Business


"Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it."
Thought


"A chronicle is very different from history proper."
History


"Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice."
Time


"Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?"
Work


"It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page."
Art


"When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had."
Literature


"I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try."
Poems


"I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow."
Hope


"The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened."
Bible
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