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  2. 115 Hard Work Quotes That Will Motivate Us To Persevere - AOL

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    55. "Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best self to the world.” – Hill Harper. 56. "Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the ...

  3. Arbeit macht frei - Wikipedia

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    Arbeit macht frei ([ˈaʁbaɪt ˈmaxt ˈfʁaɪ] ⓘ) is a German phrase translated as "Work makes one free" or more idiomatically "Work sets you free" or "work liberates". The phrase originates from the 1873 novel Arbeit macht frei ("Work sets (you) free") by Lorenz Diefenbach , a pastor and philologist , itself being an allusion to John 8:31 ...

  4. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    The work praises the man. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch; There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream; There are none so blind as those who will not see – attributed variously to Edmund Burke or George Santayana; There are two sides to every question; There but for the grace of God go I

  5. Myth of meritocracy - Wikipedia

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    In 1990, Michael Kinsley stated, "Inequalities of income, wealth, status are inevitable, and in a capitalist system even necessary." [13] Rising wealth disparity increasingly undermines faith in the existence of meritocracy, as beliefs in equal opportunity and social equality lose credibility among lower classes who recognize the preexisting reality of limited class mobility as a feature of ...

  6. Who Moved My Cheese? - Wikipedia

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    An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life is a 1998 motivational business fable by Spencer Johnson which describes four reactions to change. The book is written as a parable about two mice and two "Littlepeople" during their hunt for cheese .

  7. Made to Stick - Wikipedia

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    Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die is a book by brothers Chip and Dan Heath published by Random House on January 2, 2007. The book expands upon the idea of "stickiness" popularized by Malcolm Gladwell in The Tipping Point, seeking to explain what makes an idea or concept memorable or interesting.

  8. A picture is worth a thousand words - Wikipedia

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    The modern use of the phrase is generally attributed to Fred R. Barnard. Barnard wrote this phrase in the advertising trade journal Printers' Ink, promoting the use of images in advertisements that appeared on the sides of streetcars. [6] The December 8, 1921, issue carries an ad entitled, "One Look is Worth A Thousand Words."

  9. So God Made a Farmer - Wikipedia

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    Paul Harvey ran a similar article in the column "A Point of View" for the Gadsden Times on August 26, 1975. [9] Entitled "What it is to be a farmer", the article did not contain the concept of God creating the farmer seen in his 1978 speech, but he still described the characteristics of a farmer. [9]