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Much better to do one's own work even if you have to do it imperfectly
than it is to do read more
Much better to do one's own work even if you have to do it imperfectly
than it is to do somebody elses work perfectly.
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, read more
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why
deprive somebody who really loves it.
I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why
deprive somebody who really loves it.
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born read more
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.
It's fun being a kid.
It's fun being a kid.
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten
years, plant trees; if read more
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten
years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
I am bigger than anything that can happen to me.
I am bigger than anything that can happen to me.
If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
