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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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There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. – Victor Hugo

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The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. – Victor Hugo

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and youre just sitting still? – J. Paul Getty

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A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself. – Jose Marti

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