Quote by Henry Miller
Instead of asking How much damage will the work in question bring

Instead of asking How much damage will the work in question bring about? why not ask How much good? How much joy? – Henry Miller

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The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it. – Henry Miller

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Excess
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The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary. – Henry Miller

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communication
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I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you – you have to go out and get it! – Harvey Fierstein

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work

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work. – Charles Kettering

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work

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens. – Gustave Flaubert

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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. – John Lubbock

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work

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Trust cannot be commanded and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust. – Gustav Heinemann

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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. – Benjamin Disraeli

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It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world. – Arthur Henderson

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Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So new means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I dont think new new new. Im not a genius. A little twist. – Masaharu Morimoto

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