"If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?"
-Henry David Thoreau
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"Live your life, do your work, then take your hat."
-Henry David Thoreau
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"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
-Henry David Thoreau
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"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."
-Henry David Thoreau
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"Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it."
-Henry David Thoreau
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"To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea."
-Henry David Thoreau
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"You do have to change things as warfare changes."
-Charles Schumer
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"My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important."
-Tom Hanks
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"What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later."
-Jonathan Sacks
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"Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it."
-Jonathan Sacks
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"Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon."
-Nick Clegg
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"Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives."
-Jonathan Sacks
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