The first writer that I think of immediately that I studied with at Michigan is Peter Ho Davies. He was really important to me, tackling that first novel. Just writing it. - Jesmyn Ward

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Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise. — Frank Ocean

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You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. — George Horace Lorimer

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Work is the best friend I have ever known. It has brought me all the good things I have had. — John Soforic

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I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget. — George W. Bush

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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. — Harry Golden

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. — Horace

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A man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks. — Thurgood Marshall

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Your first purpose is to find a purpose for yourself. And your second purpose must not immediately be trying to reach that purpose you found but to investigate thoroughly whether that purpose is really necessary for yourself or whether it is worth at all to struggle for it! Because millions are fighting for a purpose which will in no way make them happy at the end! ― Mehmet Murat ildan

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there. — Will Rogers

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