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Doris Lessing
: Man — who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.
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Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance
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Chances are you feel superior to almost everyone you work with — however, they probably feel the same way about you.
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People who come up with It may not work or What are we going to do if it fails? do not have the credentials to be businessmen. If there is only a 1 percent chance of success, a true businessperson sees that 1 percent as the spark to light a fire.
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Edwin A Robinson :
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Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean favored, and imperially slim. And he was always quietly arrayed, And he was always human when he talked; But still he fluttered pulses when he said, "Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked. And he was rich—yes, richer than a king— And admirably schooled in every grace: In fine, we thought that he was everything To make us wish that we were in his place. So on we worked, and waited for the light, And went without the meat, and cursed the bread; And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, Went home and put a bullet through his head.
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Doris Lessing :
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Man — who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
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A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
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Anatole France :
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Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He does not want to sign His name.
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One of the challenges you will face is finding a job in our depressed economy, ... In fact, the chances of finding a job are about as good as finding weapons of mass destruction in the Iraqi desert -- slim and none, and slim just left the building.
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A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
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Laughter is by definition healthy.
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Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
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In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.
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Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
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It seems to me like this. It's not a terrible thing — I mean, it may be terrible, but it's not damaging, it's not poisoning, to do without something one really wants. It's not bad to say: My work is not what I really want, I'm capable of doing something bigger. Or I'm a person who needs love, and I'm doing without it. What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is the first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
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It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
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