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I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

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To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#done #free #heart #joy #mind

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

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Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. ↗

— Arthur Helps

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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#absorb #awful #grave #hands #lean

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

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What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#deeper meaning #does #enough #got #i

Almost all the fans I meet are pretty cool people. They're intelligent and tend to think about things a bit more than your average rock'n'roll fans: sensible people I wouldn't mind having a drink with. ↗

— Peter Buck

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Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care. ↗

— Paul Farmer

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