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Those who are attached only to the result of their effort will not have any chance to appreciate it, because the result will never come.
Those who are attached only to the result of their effort will not have any chance to appreciate it, because the result will never come.
Approximate author period: c. 1937 AD · modern
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- Shunryu Suzuki
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- Approximate author period: c. 1937 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Shunryū Suzuki: life dates 1904 to 1971. Wikidata Q572599, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q572599 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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