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You don't need a certificate. Just do it or not do it.

Lawrence Weiner

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Weiner, Lawrence. "Artists at Work: Lawrence Weiner." Interviewed by Emily McDermott. Interview Magazine, 2 Sept. 2015, www.interviewmagazine.com/art/artists-at-work-lawrence-weiner.

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Joel, you wanna know something? Every now and then say, "What the fuck." "What the fuck" gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future.

Risky Business

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Risky Business. Directed by Paul Brickman, The Geffen Film Company, 1983.

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Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the "transcendent" and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mamals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.

Christopher Hitchens

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Hitchens, Christopher. Letters to a Young Contrarian. Art of Mentoring. Basic Books, 2001, envoi.

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There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Smith, Logan Pearsall. "Life and Human Nature." Afterthoughts. Constable & Company, 1931.

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You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry. Don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

Walter Hagen

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Hagen, Walter C. The Walter Hagen Story. Simon and Schuster, 1956.

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You cannot be a success in any business without believing that it is the greatest business in the world... You have to put your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Thomas Watson

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Watson, Thomas. Quoted in IBM: Colossus in Transition, written by Robert Sobel. Truman Talley Books, 1981.

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When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

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Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897, ch. 2.

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Twain, Mark. "Following the Equator." Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount Jr. Library of America, 2010, ch. 2.

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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

Mark Twain

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

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Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897, ch. 59.

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Twain, Mark. "Following the Equator." Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount Jr. Library of America, 2010, ch. 59.

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Be checked for silence,
But never taxed for speech.

William Shakespeare

All’s Well that Ends Well

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Shakespeare, William. "All's Well that Ends Well." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 1, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "All's Well That Ends Well." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 1, sc. 1.

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Frame your mind to mirth and merriment,
Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.

William Shakespeare

The Taming of the Shrew

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Shakespeare, William. The Taming of the Shrew. London: Cuthbert Burbie, 1594, introduction, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Taming of the Shrew." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, introduction, sc. 2.

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Be cheerful while you are alive.

Ptahhotep

The Maxims of Ptahhotep

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Ptahhotep. The Maxims of Ptahhotep. c. 2375, maxim 34.

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Immanuel Kant

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

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Kant, Immanuel. Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten [Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals]. Riga: J. F. Hartknoch, 1785.

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Kant, Immanuel. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, translated by Mary Gregor and Jes Timmermann. Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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If anyone wishes to observe the works of nature, he should put his trust not in books of anatomy but in his own eyes.

Galen

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Galen. De Usu Partium Corporis Humani [On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body]. c. 175.

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Galen. On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body, translated by Margaret Tallmadge May. Vol. 1, Cornell University Press, 1968, p. 119.

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Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.

Warren Buffett

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Buffett, Warren. "Buy American. I Am." The New York Times, Oct 16, 2008.

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Doomsday is near. Die all, die merrily.

William Shakespeare

Henry IV, Part 1

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Shakespeare, William. Henry IV, Part 1. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1597, The Theatre, London, England, UK, act 4, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "The First Part of Henry the Fourth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, 2015, act 4, sc. 1.

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Then shun, oh! shun that wretched state
And all the fawning flatterers hate:
Value yourselves, and men despise
You must be proud if you'll be wise.

Mary Chudleigh

To the Ladies

On marriage.

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Chudleigh, Mary. "To the Ladies." Poems on Several Occasions. London: Bernard Lintott, 1703, I. 21.

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Chudleigh, Mary. "To the Ladies." The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh. Oxford University Press, 1993, I. 21.

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Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.

Jean de la Fontaine

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La Fontaine, Jean. "Le Cartier Embourbe [The Carter in the Mire]." Fables. Paris, c. 1668, bk. 6, no. 17.

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If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

Albert Einstein

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Einstein, Albert. "On Intellectual Freedom, 18 November 1954." Einstein on Politics, edited by David E. Rowe and Robert Schulmann. Princeton University Press, 2007, ch. 10. Originally from Letter to the editor published in The Reporter, 18 Nov. 1954.

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A hint-don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! Study nature then brood on it and treasure the creation which will result, which is the only way to ascend towards God-to create like our Divine Master.

Paul Gauguin

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Gauguin, Paul. Letter to Emile Schuffenecker. 14 Aug. 1888.

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