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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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If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness. – Victor Hugo

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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary. – Victor Hugo

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Nothing else in the world… not all the armies… is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo

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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan. – Margaret Thatcher

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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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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him. – John Burroughs

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter. – Proverb

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Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away. – Eric Berne

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Wise men learn many things from their enemies. – Aristophanes

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To shun ones cross is to make it heavier. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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I like to be at home because I just travel so much. I have four dogs, golden retrievers. – Denise Richards

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