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If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

~ Gene Stratton-Porter

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It is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. What are you industrious about?

~ Henry David Thoreau

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To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.

~ Samuel Butler

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If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

~ Henry David Thoreau

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If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for. I trust that I shall never thus sell my birthright for a mess of pottage. I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

~ Henry David Thoreau

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It couldn’t last. Everyone was just killing time. But if all they did was kill time, time would end up killing them.

~ Michael Grant

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I divide my officers into four classes as follows: The clever, the industrious, the lazy, and the stupid. Each officer always possesses two of these qualities.Those who are clever and industrious I appoint to the General Staff. Use can under certain circumstances be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy qualifies for the highest leadership posts. He has the requisite nerves and the mental clarity for difficult decisions. But whoever is stupid and industrious must be got rid of, for he is too dangerous.

~ Kurt Von Hammerstein-Equord

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