"Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job."

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Lois McMaster Bujold

#Jobs Quotes #Rewards Quotes #Too Late Quotes

“I'm constantly warning people that are involved in my life that I can go busk and make a living. I can make my rent in New York City in the subway, I promise, if I'm forced to.”
“What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.”
“The overwhelming majority of our nation - intellectuals, academics, theologians, the greats, and the leadership - are in favor of getting the sanctions removed.”
“They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.”
“The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.”

Source : "Black art is dangerous, because it marries the personal and political" by Hannah Giorgis, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2015.
“I'm totally in favour of meeting our Paris commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But I don't think we should do that by making ourselves uncompetitive.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Being dead will be no different from being unborn -- I shall be just as I was in the time of William the Conqueror or the dinosaurs or the trilobites. There is nothing to fear in that.”
“I would rather do a play because it's instantaneous. You go on the stage, and you know whether it's happening or not. Somebody asked me 'What is acting?' And I said, 'Acting is listening.' And if you ain't listening, nobody's listening.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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