"We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work."

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Source : John Dos Passos (1934). “Three Plays: The Garbage Man, Airways, Inc., Fortune Heights”

John Dos Passos

“I don't need to be rich anymore; I don't need to be a millionaire.”
“The true logic of this world is in the calculus of probabilities.”
“Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.”
“Fear is natural. Be with it.”
“In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great extension of time, a way for one person to live a thousand and one lives in a single lifespan, to watch the great impersonal universe at work again and again That is why I read: I want everything to be okay. Thatâ€™s why I read when I was a lonely kid and thatâ€™s why I read now that Iâ€™m a scared adult.”
“When you have nothing to lose, the sky's the limit.”

Source : "Police Academy Week: a chat with actor/memoirist Steve Guttenberg". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2012.
“It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.”
“Jesus knows our world. He does not disdain us like the God of Aristotle. We can speak to Him and He answers us. Although He is a person like ourselves, He is God and transcends all things.”

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