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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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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. – Samuel Butler

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Life
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An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones. We should have patience and see whether the incoherency is likely to wear off or to wear on, in which latter case the sooner we get rid of them the better. – Samuel Butler

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Ideas
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. – Samuel Butler

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respect
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You dont have to twist my arm to work. – Henry Rollins

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work

Id like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they dont have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that. – Angelina Jolie

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work

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world. – Orison Swett Marden

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work

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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work

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The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time. – David Bowie

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Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions. – Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary

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Im just glad that my community has faith and confidence in me. – Charles Rangel

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Faith

I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. Im better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that dont. – Alton Brown

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Sympathy