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Quotations about worthwhile
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Life is too short to do mediocre work and it is definitely too short to build shitty things.
Stewart Butterfield (b. 1973) Canadian tech entrepreneur and businessman
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As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December’s bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.
Donald E. Westlake (1933-2008) American writer
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Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) English statesman, wit [Philip Dormer Stanhope]
Letter to his son (10 Mar 1746)
If it was a worthwhile fight, it didn’t matter who won; some good was sure to come of it.
Richard Brooks (1912-1992) American screenwriter, film director, novelist
Deadline: U.S.A. [film] (1952)
Line spoken by Ethyl Barrymore.
I had rather live and love where death is king, than have eternal life where love is not.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
“At a Child’s Grave” (8 Jan 1882)
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