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If you work hard enough at something that doesn't matter, you can forget for a while about the things that do.

If you work hard enough at something that doesn’t matter, you can forget for a while about the things that do.
– Octavia E Butler

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  4. Was an eternity of absolute ease just another name for hell? – Octavia E Butler
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  10. BewareAt war Or at peace,More people die Of unenlightened self-interestThan of any other disease – Octavia E Butler
  11. There is no endTo what a living worldWill demand of you. – Octavia E Butler
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  15. Forget your voice, sing!Forget your feet, dance!Forget your life, live!Forget yourself and be! – Kamand Kojouri
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  17. Renounce poor work.Shun trivial work.Entertain respectable work.Welcome superior work.Honor transcendent work. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  18. How you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do. – John Green
  19. Forget race, forget gender, forget religion, and become a human my friend. Become a human above everything else, and all great things shall follow. – Abhijit Naskar
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  21. We must forget in order to remain present, forget in order not to die, forget in order to remain faithful. – Marc Aug
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  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. Like all beings, I will eventually add my energy and matter and light to the fabric of the universe, a single strand in its amazing tapestry. – Julia Butler
  26. To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious. – Samuel Butler
  27. Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. – Samuel Butler
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  37. 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
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  39. 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
  40. There is no use trying to do Church work without love. A doctor, a lawyer, may do good work without love, but God’s work cannot be done without love. – Dwight L Moody

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