The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.
– Henry Rollins
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- And remember also that in fighting against man we must not come to resemble him. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices. – George Orwell
- You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others. – Henry Rollins
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- Renounce poor work.Shun trivial work.Entertain respectable work.Welcome superior work.Honor transcendent work. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Soon would come the night in which there was no more work -“ not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart. – Paul Russell
- It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate. – Stephen R Donaldson
- A rose trapped inside a fist. – Henry Rollins
- I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine. – Henry Rollins
- I’ll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does. – Henry Rollins
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- Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness. When I see you, the room swallows me. I find myself at the bottom of the pool. – Henry Rollins
- Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but i feel more lonely in a crowded room with boring people then i feel on my owm. – Henry Rollins
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- I don’t have talent, I have tenacity. – Henry Rollins
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- I think to myself: I don’t want to survive this oneI want to burn up in the wreckage – Henry Rollins
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- Material wealth don’t just come and go, they come to stay as long as the virtues remain in the fabric of a nation – Sunday Adelaja
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- That’s the beauty of the universe. There’s always a new mystery. – James Rollins
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- Work hard,and you will earn good rewards.Work smart,and you will earn great rewards.Work hard and work smart,and you will earn extraordinary rewards. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Believe in miracles as if there’s no work, but work as if there are no miracles. When miracles and hard work come together success is certain. – Val Uchendu
- …lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn’t ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, work round to the same. – Charles ens
- Come out, come out, wherever you are… come out, come out, or you’ll end up in the tar… – Beatrice Rose Roberts
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- The Destructive Arts are exactly like Martial Arts, except they don’t have uniforms or usefulness and the end result doesn’t resemble art in any way. – Jim Benton
- How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother? – Gabrielle Hamilton
- All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion. – Richard von KrafftEbing
- A world emerging, daily, out of nothing, a world that we trust to resemble what we’ve seen previously. We should know better. – Gregory Maguire
- My dear boy, looking like a thing has little to do with being a thing. Be the thing first, and you will grow to resemble it. – Liam Perrin
- what makes me human; is my mistakes and that i resemble humanbeings…,What makes me a Man is that i am selfish,powerful,minded and stubborn – Sephiwe Mduduzi Msiza
- The more time you spend with God, the more you will resemble Him. – Elizabeth George
- Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book. – Julia Quinn
- Some revolutions resemble restorations, at least at first glance. – Luigina Sgarro
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- Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys? – John Steinbeck