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Let us try this--every woman to work as though success depended on herself.
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102
The vision and action must go hand in hand.
103
If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.
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Those that have joined with their honor great travels, cares, or perils, are less subject to envy.
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Wonderful like is the case of boldness in civil business: what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness.
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The labour of the body frees us from the pains of the mind, and thus makes the poor happy.
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Good citizens may well claim the protection of good laws and the benign influence of good government, but a claim for office is what the people of a republic should never recognize.
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The responsibility of success or failure lay heavily upon me.
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In place of the suspicious watchfulness and the more or less open warfare which characterizes the ordinary types of management, there is universally friendly cooperation between the management and the men.
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The principal object of management should be to secure the maximum prosperity for the employer, coupled with the maximum prosperity for each employee.
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In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.
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This close, intimate, personal cooperation between the management and the men is of the essence of modern scientific or task management.
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I have learned already in this office that the difficult decisions always come to this desk.
Gerald Fordverified·Remarks on Signing a Proclamation Granting Pardon to Richard Nixon·September 8, 1974
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The strong man who in the confidence of sturdy health courts the sternest activities of life and rejoices in the hardihood of constant labor may still have lurking near his vitals the unheeded disease that dooms him to sudden collapse.
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Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen, and the contempt of our people for economy and frugality in their personal affairs deplorably saps the strength and sturdiness of our national character.
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As I look back on my struggle to write that little story, it seems to me that I must have had a prophetic vision of the good that would come of the undertaking, or I should surely have failed.
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Their life seems an immense disparity between effort and opportunity.
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It is my service to think how I can best fulfil the demands that each day makes upon me, and to rejoice that others can do what I cannot.
119
My share in the work of the world may be limited; but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
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The tedium of that work is hard to conceive.
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There are, however, times when I long to sweep away half the things I am expected to learn; for the overtaxed mind cannot enjoy the treasure it has secured at the greatest cost.
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Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process.
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To love, to dream, to feel, to learn, to understand--all these are possible to me if only I may be relieved from willing.
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How to make the getting our living poetic! for if it is not poetic, it is not life but death that we get.
Henry David Thoreauverified·Journal, Volume II: 1850-September 15, 1851 (ed. Bradford Torrey)·February 18, 1851
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Our life is frittered away by detail