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Work and Recreation
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Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.
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It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
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A large, clumsy umbrella is the best protection against the rain: there will be no rain as long as you're lugging it around.
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Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
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Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H. H. Williams, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Work and Recreation
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If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport.
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Teamwork is wasting half of one's time explaining to others why they are wrong.
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Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
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It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
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A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
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A meeting is an event where minutes are taken and hours wasted.
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Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down.
Unknown, in Life and Death and Work and Recreation
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Ever notice that even the busiest people are never too busy to tell you just how busy they are?
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First Law of Bicycling: No matter where you're going, it's uphill and against the wind.
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Grinnell's Law of Labor Laxity: At all times, for any task, you have not got enough done today.
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Holt's Law: All jobs are easy to the person who doesn't have to do them.
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I'm not afraid of work... I can even sleep beside it.
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