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A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that we had been deceived. Laplace saw no question from its true point of view; he sought subtleties everywhere; had only doubtful ideas, and finally carried the spirit of the infinitely small into administration.

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Nothing worth having comes easy.

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

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

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Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

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[It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants.

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What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which never halt, Myself unwitting where their Master dwells?

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Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

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Don't ever confuse motion with progress.

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A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

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The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

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Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

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The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

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The purpose of the whole [the Comedy] and of this portion [the Paradiso] is to remove those who are living in this life from the state of wretchedness, and to lead them to the state of blessedness.

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Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

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The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace.

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I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.

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... it is the work and not the reward that is precious.

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Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.

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There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.

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