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Quote by Victor Hugo
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. – Victor Hugo

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Because one doesnt like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God. – Victor Hugo

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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself. – Victor Hugo

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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. – Victor Hugo

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How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant – and if youre gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed? – Rush Limbaugh

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It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesnt make me feel good at all. – Lady Gaga

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Obstacles dont have to stop you. If you run into a wall, dont turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. – Michael Jordan

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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. – Booker T. Washington

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