“You have to give everyone ugly motives for everything they do, because ugly motives are all you understand.”
Source: City of Ashes
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Cassandra Clare 2041
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“Listen to how everyone is talking about you. You have to use it as fuel for motivation.”

Prologue
Junkie (1953)
Context: The questions, of course, could be asked: Why did you ever try narcotics? Why did you continue using it long enough to become an addict? You become a narcotics addict because you do not have strong motivations in the other direction. Junk wins by default. I tried it as a matter of curiosity.
During the pandemic in India
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“Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness:
But with poverty everything becomes frightful.”
L'or même à la laideur donne un teint de beauté :
Mais tout devient affreux avec la pauvreté.
Satire 8, l. 209
Satires (1716)

Don Soderquist “ The Wal-Mart Way: The Inside Story of the Success of the World's Largest Company https://books.google.com/books?id=mIxwVLXdyjQC&lpg=PR9&dq=Don%20Soderquist&pg=PR9#v=onepage&q=Don%20Soderquist&f=false, Thomas Nelson, April 2005, p. 81.
On working hard