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The only pride of her workday was not that it had been lived, but that it had been survived. It was wrong, she thought, it was viciously wrong that on...more

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The source of work? Man’s mind...man’s reasoning mind.

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to cheat your way into a job bigger than your mind can handle is to become a fear-corroded ape on borrowed motions and borrowed time, and to settle do...more

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We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewar...more

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Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the process by which man'...more

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If you want my advice, Peter,” he said at last, “you’ve made a mistake already. By asking me. By asking anyone. Never ask people. Not about your work....more

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What would happen to the world without those who do, think, work, produce? Those are the egotists. You don’t think through another’s brain and you don...more

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Men hate passion, any great passion. Henry Cameron made a mistake : he loved his work. That was why he fought. That was why he lost.