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"If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival."
"An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm."
"Each day of the week, Kalist indulges himself in a different, secret ritual. On Mondays, he wears cologne. On Tuesdays, he eats meat for lunch. On Wednesdays, he places a bet after work. On Thursdays, he smokes one cigarette (but claims he's not a smoker). On Fridays, he treats himself to his favourite pastime: horse practice " he grew up with horses and likes to try and emulate their distinctive whinnies, snorts, neighs, snuffles, sighs, grunts, fluttering nostrils, the occasional aggressive outburst and the especially beautiful nicker of a mare to her foal. And, on Saturdays, lest we forget, Maxwell D. Kalist drinks wine from a chalice."
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"There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad."
"I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral."
"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service."
"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are."
"If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go."
"Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him."
"A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying."
"Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral."
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