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Quote by Eugene Delacroix
What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new id

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough. – Eugene Delacroix

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I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict. – Eugene Delacroix

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Want is the mother of industry. – Proverb

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. – Mark Twain

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results. – Calvin Coolidge

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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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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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