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Do not waste a minute, not a second, in trying to demonstrate to others the merit of your own performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it, but you can labor steadily on to something which needs no advocate but itself. – Thomas Wentworth Higginson, “Letter to a Young Contributor,” The Atlantic Monthl

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The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life. – Hannah Arendt

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I like to be against the odds. Im not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, its just the satisfaction of the game. Just performance. – Barry Bonds

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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying. – Francis Bacon

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. – Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961

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Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been. – Samuel Daniel

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God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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