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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enem

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost. – Samuel Butler

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Faith – you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it. – Samuel Butler

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Heaven is the work of the best and kindest men and women. Hell is the work of prigs, pedants and professional truth-tellers. The world is an attempt to make the best of Heaven and Hell. – Samuel Butler

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Heaven
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity? – Samuel Butler

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To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture. – Pablo Picasso

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I dont think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think theres some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything. – Emma Thompson

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Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. – Marcus Aurelius

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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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Thus, the focus on this main political goal must become more visible in EU politics and to achieve this, we need a political impulse. It must be clear what the priorities on the agenda are. – Angela Merkel

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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. – George Santayana

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