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Be Yourself

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique. —John Dewey

Will Power

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it. —Alistair Cooke

When Not Responsible

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment. —Robert Benchley

Intention Matters

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. —Seneca

No Sense In That

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect intended us to forgo their use. —Galileo

Do As The Wise Do

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. —John Barrymore