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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing
sound they make as they fly by.
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-Douglas Adams
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Retired is being tired twice, I've thought,
First tired of working,
Then tired of not.
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-Richard Armour
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Nothing is really work unless you would
rather be doing something else.
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-James Matthew Barrie
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*When a poet is poor, half
of his divine fruits and fancies miscarry by reason of his anxious cares to
win his daily bread.
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-Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Postscript to his
Journey to Parnassus, 1614
Walter Starkie, trans.
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It is a shameful thing to be weary of
inquiry when what we search for is excellent.
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-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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*I've got so much crap to
do, it's not funny. Normally, I only have a little crap to do, and it's
funny. Sometimes when I have nothing to do, it's hilarious. And still
other times, when there's even less than nothing to do, I can't stop
laughing for days.
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-Dustin Fisher
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Get happiness out of your work or you may
never know what happiness is.
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-Elbert Hubbard
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Labor is the only prayer that Nature
answers.
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-Robert Green Ingersoll
"Address to the Jury", trial of C.B. Reynolds for blasphemy
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I find that the harder I work, the more
luck I seem to have.
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-Thomas Jefferson
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*Strange are the ways of
evil. We are false in the faces of our brothers. We are defying the will
of our Councils. We alone, of the thousands who walk this earth, we alone
in this hour are doing a work which has no purpose save that we wish to do
it.
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-The character Equality 7-2521, the hero in
Ayn Rand's
Anthem, 1937
Ch. I
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We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are
doing the impossible for the ungrateful.
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-Unknown
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If it weren't for the last minute, nothing
would get done.
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-Unknown
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*There is never enough
time to do everything that needs to be done. So do nothing at all. This
way all things are equally unfinished.
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-Michael Zotti
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