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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

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the reward of our work is not what we get, but what we become

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It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

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Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

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I am always for the man who wishes to work.

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I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

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No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

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Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

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The only way round is through.

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I've tried to be totally present, so that when I'm finished with a piece of work, I'm finished. ... The work, once completed, does not need me. The work I'm working on needs my total concentration. The one that's finished doesn't belong to me anymore. It belongs to itself.

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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.

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If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

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Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With the former, his heart is in his work; and he will do twice as much of it with less fatigue. The latter performs a little imperfectly, looks at it in disgust, turns from it, and imagines himself exceedingly tired. The little he has done, comes to nothing, for want of finishing.

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Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.

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And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox.

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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

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We're getting rid of the D [in PTSD]. PTS is an injury; it's not a disorder. The problem is when you call it a disorder, [veterans] don't think they can be treated. An employer says, 'I don't want to hire somebody with a disorder.

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It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

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The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.

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Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

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