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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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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. – Victor Hugo

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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. – Victor Hugo

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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. – Victor Hugo

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Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you cant be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people. – Lee Iacocca

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I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job. – Walter Wager

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I wasnt born a fool. It took work to get this way. – Danny Kaye

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You can work really hard, but if youre not training in the right way youre not going to improve and get to the level that you want to. – Michael Chang

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