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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?"

"When you do great things, think as if you missed the mark by an inch; walk as if you are yet to face the greatest task; talk as if you are yet to have the best preparation for the momentous moment and dream as if you are fighting a battalion of tasks."

"How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII."

"Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having."

"It's not going to be easy, but it's kind of like ripping off a band-aid. Painful for a minute, but it has to be done."

"And certainly both Horses were doing, if not all they could, all they thought they could; which is not quite the same thing."

"They will cry, he will shout but you must sweat."
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"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."

"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."

"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it."
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