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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What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past. – Victor Hugo

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Future
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. – Victor Hugo

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Time
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Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls. – Victor Hugo

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I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with. – Stephen Dorff

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Ive always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. – Michael Jordan

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results. – James Allen

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But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work. – Henry Rollins

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Many a bum show has been saved by the flag. – George M. Cohan

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Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves. – Werner Heisenberg

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My nominee for Best Picture of the year – maybe the best picture ever, because its essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies – is Christian Marclays endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece The Clock. – Jerry Saltz

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Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real. – Phillip E. Johnson

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