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“Much of my work has come from being lazy.”

— John Backus

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You need the willingness to fail all the time.

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Be thy best thoughts to work divine addressed; Do something,—do it soon—with all thy might; An angel's wing would droop if long at rest, And God Himself inactive were no longer blessed.

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When I read the life of such a man as Paul, how I blush to think how sickly and dwarfed Christianity is at the present time, and how many hundreds there are who never think of working for the Son of God and honoring Christ.

— D. L. Moody

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What is done is done; has already blended itself with the boundless, ever living, ever working universe, and will also work there for good or evil, openly or secretly, throughout all time.

— Thomas Carlyle

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How full of briers is this working-day world!

— Shakspeare

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