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“there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.”
― Albert Camus

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“Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.”
― Henry Kissinger

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“We need a revolution in academia, with every social science attempting to
understand the causes of happiness.”
― Richard Layard, Happiness: Lessons from a New Science

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“Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love—is the sum of what you focus on.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

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“Passion comes after you put in the hard work to become excellent at something valuable, not before. In other words, what you do for a living is much less important than how you do it.”
― Cal newport, So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

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