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Stealing isn't so easy, often it's hard work, otherwise we'd all be doing it.

I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!

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Eliezer YudkowskyHarry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

I have never created anything in my life that did not make me feel, at some point or another, like I...

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Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be...

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Mary was proud of her husband, not merely because he was a musician, but because he was a blacksmith...

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If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a mi...

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It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you rea...

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Faith without action is delusion. Faith does not wait for miracles but produces them. If you think y...

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Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your...

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I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives wh...

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Howard ZinnYou Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

The idea that any art is achieved 'intuitively' is a dehumanization of the brains, effort, and the t...

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Joanna RussHow to Suppress Women's Writing

Labor is a man crowning glory.""Not this man's.""I quote Marx"I raised my hands. The pickaxe handle ...

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Bradley is one of the few basketball players who have ever been appreciatively cheered by a disinter...

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John McPheeA Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton

If basketball was going to enable Bradley to make friends, to prove that a banker's son is as good a...

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John McPheeA Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universi...

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When you're tired, sleep. Don't watch stupid tv or play games on your phone. Sleep, and then get up ...

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The striking thing about Ericsson’s study is that he and his colleagues couldn’t find any ‘naturals,...

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Malcolm GladwellOutliers: The Story of Success

It’s not about money or connections — it’s the willingness to outwork and out-learn everyone… And if...

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There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will u...

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Max BrooksWorld War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

You know what's wrong with scientific power?... It's a form of inherited wealth... Most kinds of pow...

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You know what's wrong with scientific power?... It's a form of inherited wealth... Most kinds of pow...

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I'm really very self-confident when it comes to my work. When I take on a project, I believe in it 1...

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I'm really very self-confident when it comes to my work. When I take on a project, I believe in it 1...

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Belief, hard work, love - you have those things, you can do anything.

People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex phy...

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Muhammad YunusBanker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your f...

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Observing people taking in the work I had watched Robert create was an emotional experience. It had ...

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Jealously would kill you from inside, if you water the plant of jealousy with anger instead of hard ...

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It's only those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

As I see it, if you work more hours than somebody else, during those hours you learn more about your...

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We wanted to be accepted by our fellows, especially the influential natural leaders among us; and th...

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Richard DawkinsAn Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

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Richard KochThe 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less

Maybe the best things are those that take the most work, you know? Maybe how you get somewhere can b...

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So I loathed all the fruit of my effort, for which I worked so hard on earth, because I must leave i...

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Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced....

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But there was no time to rest on my laurels.

He had the kind of real deep tan that rich people spent ages trying to achieve with expensive holida...

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Conservatism -- hard work -- saving one's money -- looking neat and gentlemanly. It was such an Evel...

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I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it

I find that the harder I work , the more luck I seem to have.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never ...

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I work hard, and I do good, and I’m going to enjoy myself. I’m not going to let you restrict me.

It's a complex song, and it's fascinating to watch the creative process as they went back and forth ...

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The best gifts are never given, but claimed.

There is no substitute for hard work.

No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards bette...

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Anthony BourdainKitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Only an atmosphere of quiet hard work and dull, serious conversation were appropriate to him.

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Anthony PowellA Dance to the Music of Time: 2nd Movement

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

Work hard, keep your nose clean, and just stick around.

There's no talent here, this is hard work. This is an obsession. Talent does not exist, we are all e...

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The country he had left thirty years ago had been a realistic place. There were political realities ...

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Everything worthwhile in life is attained through hard work. Happiness is not an exception.

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Dennis PragerHappiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual