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“Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.”
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“Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.”
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“Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.”
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“You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.”
Source : Aristophanes (2015). “The wasps - The birds - The frogs - The Thesmophoriazusae - The Ecclesiazusae”, p.276, Aristophanes
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“How much do they be paying you?" he asked mellowly. "The usual salary. A little more than they think I'm worth and a little less than I think I'm worth.”
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“Salary arbitration is probably in place - was put in place then and probably is in place now - because I supported it.”
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“What the hell have Greenpeace and WWF done? They are paid very good salaries and they float around the world saying, 'We are helping the world,' but they haven't.”
Source : "The green man". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2002. 
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“You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.”
Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
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“God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.”
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“I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.”
