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Brigham Young quote: "To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man."
To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man. Brigham Young
But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years. Stephen King
Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue..."
Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits. Robert Louis Stevenson
All the same, I should like it all plain and clear," said he obstinately, putting on his business manner (usually reserved for people who tried to borrow money off him), and doing his best to appear wise and prudent and professional and live up to Gandalf's recommendation. "Also I should like to know about risks, out-of-pocket expenses, time required and remuneration, and so forth"--by which he meant: "What am I going to get out of it ? and am I going to come back alive? J. R. R. Tolkien
Always chained to a single little fragment of the whole, man himself develops into only a fragment; always in his ear the monotonous sound of the wheel he turns, he never develops the harmony of his being; and instead of putting the stamp of humanity upon his nature he becomes nothing more than the imprint of his business or science Friedrich Schiller
I was in the parking lot, with the key in the car, and I thought to myself: If this is my last night on earth, would I rather spend it at a business meeting or with this woman? I ran across the parking lot, asked her if she'd have dinner with me. She said yes, we walked into town, and we've been together ever since. Steve Jobs
I have pain in my hip and long walks are a thing of the past but I'm neither morbid nor senile. I'm not obsessed by death, but I'm at an age when I have to accept that my time is about up. You want to close the accounts and take care of unfinished business. Steig Larsson
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin-real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. - Sam's Letters for Jennifer James Patterson
...either the gods are there whether you believe or not, or exist only as a function of the belief, so either way you might as well ignore the whole business... Terry Prachett
Grand," I said. "Just grand. I get myself into the army, stand up in battles I have no business in, get nailed in the back by sorcery, accept an impossible assignment to be carried out in the middle of it all, and then, just to top things off, I have to go have a mystical fucking experience. This is just great. Steven Brust
My first editor used to say that eighty-five per cent of what goes on in a novelist's head is none of his business, a sentiment I've never believed should be restricted to just writers. Stephen King
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what..."
Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made. Henry David Thoreau
Manilov was pleased by these final words, but he still couldn't make sense of the deal itself, and for want of an answer, he began sucking his clay pipe so hard that it started to wheeze like a bassoon. He seemed to be trying to extract from it an opinion about this unprecedented business; but the clay pipe only wheezed and said nothing. Nikolai Gogol
Stephenie Meyer quote: "The wasting of finite resources is everyones business"
The wasting of finite resources is everyones business Stephenie Meyer
John Cage quote: "Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which..."
Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness. John Cage

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