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“Do not waste your life, do some useful work.”

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“Isn’t it time to make yourself into a work of art? Isn’t it time to deliver the performance expected by the gods? There’s nothing worse than lack of ambition. The gods are interested only in those who reach for the stars, regardless of whether they will set their hands on fire.”

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Book:The Triune Brain, Hypnosis and the Evolution of Consciousness

Source: The Triune Brain, Hypnosis and the Evolution of Consciousness

“New World Order is not made with hugs and kisses, with heart-to-heart conversations or “unconditional love”. It is made with the sweat of hard toil upon the backs of genius, it is made with determination and devotion, it is shaped by skill and by art and a piercing intelligence that dims every star with its brilliance.”

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Book:The Illuminati Phalanx

Source: The Illuminati Phalanx

“SOME WORK ARE DONE FOR BENEFITS, SOME ARE FOR SATISFACTION AND SOME ARE FOR LIFE.”

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Book:Productivity Promoter

Source: Productivity Promoter

“The money in the chorus isn’t very good, is it?!” she said. “No.” It was less than you’d get for scrubbing floors. The reason was that, when you advertised a dirty floor, hundreds of hopefuls didn’t turn up.”

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Book:Maskerade

Source: Maskerade

“By the time the blooms Unfurl themselves for a few hours of light, the women who tend them Are already at work. Blue. I’ll never know who started the lie that we are lazy, But I’d love to wake that bastard up At foreday in the morning, toss him in a truck, and drive him under God Past every bus stop in America to see all those black folk Waiting to go work for whatever they want.”

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Book:The Tradition

Source: The Tradition

“Working half-heartedly to achieve your goal is worse than not working at all.”

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Author:Rahul Shrivastava

“Life is labour. Be wiling to work.”

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Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“What yo' all reckon is the matter sho' 'nough?" "Must be something terrible when white folks get slow about putting us to work.”

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Book:Mules and Men

Source: Mules and Men

“Jim Allen laughed just as loud as anybody else and then he said: "We better hurry on to work befo' de buckra [white people] get in behind us." "Don't never worry about work," says Jim Presley. "There's more work in de world than there is anything else. God made de world and de white folks made work.”

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Book:Mules and Men

Source: Mules and Men

“God let down two bundles 'bout five miles down de road. So de white man and de n****r raced to see who would git there first. Well, de n****r out-run de white man and grabbed de biggest bundle. He was so skeered de white man would git it away from him he fell on top of de bundle and hollered back: "Oh, Ah got here first and dis biggest bundle is mine." De white man says: "All right, Ah'll take yo' leavings," and picked up de li'l tee-ninchy bundle layin' in de road. When de n****r opened up his bundle he found a pick and shovel and a hoe and a plow and chop-axe and then de white man opened up his bundle and found a writin'-pen and ink. So ever since then de n****r been out in de hot sun, usin' his tools and de white man been sittin' up figgerin', ought's a ought, figger's a figger; all for de white man, none for de n****r.”

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Book:Mules and Men

Source: Mules and Men