"The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work."
-Simone Weil
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"To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves."
-Simone Weil
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"What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war."
-Simone Weil
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"A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war."
-Simone Weil
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"Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it."
-Simone Weil
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"Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace."
-Simone Weil
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"I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience."
-Tyrone Power
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"So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required."
-Bowie Kuhn
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"If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything."
-Ilie Nastase
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"Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required."
-Yiannis Stournaras
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"As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience."
-Ridley Pearson
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"Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked."
-Abdus Salam
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