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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."
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"A lazy person will never grow wealthy."
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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?"
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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."
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"A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."
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"The work is plentiful but the labours are few."
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"If you have never planted, then you cannot expect a great harvest."
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"But hell, you've gotta work with what you've got."
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"Your race against life must yield effort for you to be productive."
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"Planting flowers in a desert is more productive than imparting wisdom to fools."
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"It depends on you, to keep pushing forward until you win or giving in. Always choice the former."
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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."
Effort
"The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing."
Imagination
"Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams."
Dream
"If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards."
Cards
"The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it."
Nature
"There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself."
Talent
"If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger."
People
"Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones."
Libraries
"To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still."
Applause
"The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery."
American
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