"A good conscience is a continual Christmas."
-Benjamin Franklin
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"Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.“
-Benjamin Franklin
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"The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands."
-Benjamin Franklin
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"All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world."
-Benjamin Franklin
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"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."
-Benjamin Franklin
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"It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man."
-Benjamin Franklin
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"Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion."
-Benjamin Franklin
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"I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen."
-Tom Stoppard
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"Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that."
-Jeff Bridges
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"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."
-Tom Stoppard
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"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."
-Novalis
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"Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within."
-Caspar David Friedrich
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"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work."
-Brian Eno
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