"People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.“

-Thomas Sowell

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"Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric."

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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

-Thomas A. Edison

"There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!"

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"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."

-Leo Tolstoy

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."

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-Albert Camus

"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present."

-Lao Tzu