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Idle hands are the devil's playthings.

Benjamin Franklin / Founding Father Of The United States
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Lost time is never found again.

Benjamin Franklin Founding Father Of The United States

You may delay, but time will not.

Benjamin Franklin Founding Father Of The United States

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

Benjamin Franklin Founding Father Of The United States

Revealed religion has no weight with me.

Benjamin Franklin Founding Father Of The United States

The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.

George Eliot Novelist

The gold-digger is the enemy of the honest laborer, whatever checks and compensations there may be. It is not enough to tell me that you worked hard to get your gold. So does the Devil work hard. The way of transgressors may be hard in many respects.

Henry David Thoreau Author

There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, "The devil is in the details." One can formulate brilliant global strategies whose executability is zero. It's only through familiarity with details - the capability of the individuals who have to execute, the marketplace, the timing - that a good strategy emerges. I like to work from details to big pictures.

Andy Grove Businessman

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

Albert Schweitzer Theologian

The devil tempts that he may ruin; God tests that he may crown.

Ambrose Saint

God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

Andre Weil Mathematician

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