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“Luck is not chance— / It’s Toil.”
“As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.”
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“I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.”
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“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
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“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
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“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”
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