"The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter."

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Source : Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.49, Advaita Ashrama

Hendrik Willem van Loon

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“If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.”
“To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.”
“In our dreams we are always young.”

Source : Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.201, Kodansha America
“Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.”

Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.14
“Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence.”
“Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.”
“God has brought me this far. He has laid out a phenomenal path for me. And I can't do anything but thank him.”
“For those of us (those that have the desire to explore the world unknown) that grew up going out into the wilds of the world...we got into our souls a sense of beauty.”

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