"To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves."

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"To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves."

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Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

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"A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it."

Joan Lunden, American Celebrity

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"It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media."

Chuck Klosterman, American Critic

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"This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts."

Dirk Kempthorne, American Politician

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"After an eight-hour day workers require three overtime hours to produce two regular hours of results."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"With a fresh start, I hope it'll work out good. I know the whole Fox story and how he came over here and had a great year for them. I'm hoping that's what it'll be - fresh start, new faces, new team, new city. I'm looking forward to getting out there."

Billy Koch, American Athlete

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"Until the world in some way changes, then my responsibility is to share what I know and more importantly to behave like I know about the extraordinary work and effort and blood shed for me to be able to sit here."

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"Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life."

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"There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice."

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"Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication."

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"Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge."

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"The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work."

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"We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful."

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