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"The whole world's effort of working hard goes to waste. Just as the bull [that turns the wheels on the oil mill] gets a piece of oil-cake (as a reward), the wife gives the husband a piece of handvo (savory lentil and rice cake), and so the work continues. All day long, one is producing like the bull in the oil mill."
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"You cannot cross large rivers without building bridges."
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"Due to your merit karma, your efforts will bring you success and when the merit karma is expended, your efforts will bring in losses."
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"The cost of anything is the focused energy you are prepared to bring to bear to pursue it."
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"Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials."
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"While real sacrifice is committed to the result, it relishes the effort."
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"There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer."
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"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."
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"If only one person can do it, you cannot do it, if two people can do it, you can do it too."
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"Success does not come to a person's life by chance you have to fight for it."
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"You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave."
Family

"It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough."
Sacrifice

"It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom."
Boredom

"Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it."
Opportunity

"If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style."
Failure

"The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us."
People

"Sex is the last refuge of the miserable."
Sex

"The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another."
Time

"The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency."
Happiness

"However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police."
Man
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