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Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.


Michael Winter
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I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.
Hugh Laurie
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Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.


Mahatma Gandhi
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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.
Jack Adams
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Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
Leo Tolstoy
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.


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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.


Najib Mikati
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To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
James Allen
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I adapt to things quickly, including good things, which I wish I could shut off sometimes.


Isaac Marion
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I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.


Thomas Jefferson
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Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.


Jules Renard
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Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.


Jules Renard
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I grew up in South Africa without a television; there was no television, and the year after I left, television arrived in South Africa, so I have never really acquired a taste for watching television.
Alice Krige
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I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.
Simon Cowell
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My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of time contemplating endings. The final ending is usually arrived at simply by intuition.
Joyce Carol Oates
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To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.


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I've never been speed dating! I sort of wish I had, just for the experience of it.


America Ferrera
Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.
Grenville Kleiser
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There is a - deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me.


Roger Ailes
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