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"I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner."

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Other quotes by William Lyon Phelps.
"Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money."

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Other quotes by Reynolds Price.
"What I still ask for daily - for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life."

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Other quotes by Pope Pius XI.
"It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good."

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Other quotes by Katherine Anne Porter.
"I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always."

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Other quotes by Beatrix Potter.
"All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife . Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest."

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Other quotes by Colin.
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

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Other quotes by Polish Proverb.
"Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day."

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Other quotes by Haitian Proverb.
"If work were good for you, the rich would leave none for the poor."

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Other quotes by Auguste Renoir.
"The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion."

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Other quotes by Auguste Renoir.
"If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous."

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Other quotes by Marysarah Quinn.
"A job is what we do for money work is what we do for love."

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Other quotes by Diana Rankin.
"Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success."

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Other quotes by Robert Reich.
"A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term."

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Other quotes by Fred Rogers.
"Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood."

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Other quotes by Larry Riemersma.
"As a sinner I could not please God, I could not neutralize or pay for my own sin. But when God justified me by His grace He went on record declaring me righteous. He didn't wave a magic wand and declare me to be innocent. His holiness would not permit it. A basis for declaring me righteous was needed. The ground upon which my justification is built is the substitutionary death of His son, Jesus Christ. The shedding of blood demonstrates the righteousness of God 'that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus' (Rom. 326 NKJV). What a marvelous plan Man's plan of salvation by good works is offensive to God and to anyone who has been saved by God's grace."

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Other quotes by Mickey Rooney.
"Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day."

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Other quotes by Theodore Isaac Rubin.
"Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best."

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Other quotes by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
"No business which depends for its existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level--I mean the wages of decent living."

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Other quotes by Julius Rosenwald.
"Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind."

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Other quotes by Paul Sadler.
"When God temporarily rolled up the building plans of prophecy and placed them aside, He made known a secret set of plans. With this program came a completely new set of blueprints. According to the counsel of His will, He had predetermined to call Paul as the masterbuilder of the project. So then, the instructions for our building program are found in Paul's epistles. Little wonder the apostles says 'I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon' (1 Cor. 310). It is essential to use Pauline construction materials (grace doctrines), simply because someday soon the Building Inspector will examine our workmanship to determine if we followed His codes."

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Other quotes by William Safire.
"What we don't need to know for achievement, we need to know for our pleasure. Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight."

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Other quotes by John Ruskin.
"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

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Other quotes by John Ruskin.
"...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work."

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Other quotes by John Ruskin.
"In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it."

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Other quotes by Dr. Jonas Salk.
"The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more."

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Other quotes by Paul Sadler.
"Why Paul God already had called twelve apostles of the kingdom Although Judas had fallen in transgression, the seat of his apostolic office was filled by Matthias preceding the day of Pentecost. Insofar as Paul was unconverted at the time, he could not have possibly fulfilled the qualificatios set down by the Holy Spirit to be numbered with the twelve (Acts 121-26). Of course, there are many dispensationalists who would agree with this interpretation, but teach that God ordained Paul to be the thirteenth apostle of the kingdom. Perhaps you have heard the saying, 'They jumped out of the frying pan into the fire.' In other words, we have gone from bad to worse, which is certainly the case with this view. the number twelve is stamped throughout the pages of prophecy, thus eliminating the possibility of a thirteenth apostolic office (Matt. 1928 cf. Rev. 12-21). What logical explanation then can we give for Paul's apostleship Before the foundation of the world, God foreordained that He would raise up a new apostle to reveal His eternal purpose for the parenthetical age of Grace in which we now live. Hence, Paul says 'But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by His grace, to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the heathen Gentiles...' (Gal. 115.16). When God temporarily rolled up the building plans of prophecy and placed them aside, He made known a secret set of plans. With this program came a completely new set of blueprints. According to the counsel of His will, He had predetermined to call Paul as the masterbuilder of the project. So then, the instructions for our building program are found in Paul's epistles. Little wonder the apostles says 'I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.' (1 Cor. 310). It is essential to use Pauline constructio materials (grace doctrines), simply because someday soon the Building Inspector will examine our workmanship to determine if we followed His codes."

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Other quotes by Saint Francis de Sales.
"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves."

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Other quotes by May Sarton.
"In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place."

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Other quotes by David Joseph Schwartz.
"The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise. We must be willing to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we wait forever before taking action. It's still good advice to cross bridges as we come to them."

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Other quotes by Gary Sinise.
"Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines."

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Other quotes by Florence Shinn.
"Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement."

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Other quotes by George Pratt Shultz.
"I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that."

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Other quotes by Dave Sim.
"Keep working your way through the maze. You'll know what it is when it happens, but you won't know until then. God grinds the axes he intends to use."

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Other quotes by Johann von Neumann.
"The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work."

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Other quotes by Thomas Sowell.
"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them."

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Other quotes by Thomas Sowell.
"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good."

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Other quotes by John Ernst Steinbeck.
"Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments."

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Other quotes by Cornelius Stam.
"The true Church is not an organization, nor does one join it through the noisy mechanics of denominational machinery. Rather it is a living organism, a body, and believers are joined to it by the quiet working of the Holy Spirit."

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Other quotes by Cornelius Stam.
"Through His redemptive work we are 'justified from all things' (Acts 1338,39) and now rejoice in 'the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace' (Eph. 17), a position in Christ at God's right hand (Eph. 24-6), 'all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ' (Eph. 13) and 'the hope of the glory of God' (Rom. 52), to be fully realized when we are 'caught up together...to meet the Lord in the air' (1 Thess. 417). Then will be fulfilled the desire of God's loving heart 'That in the ages to come He might shew the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus' (Eph. 27)."

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"When I feel bad, I work. When I have problems, when I'm depressed, when I'm bored with life, I sit down to my work. There are probably other prescriptions, but I don't know them. Or they don't work for me. You want my advice -- here it is Go and work. Thank God that people like you and me need only paper and pencil to work."

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Other quotes by J. Michael Straczynski.
"Never follow somebody else's path it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone...the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way."

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Other quotes by Nikola Tesla.
"The present is theirs the future, for which I really worked, is mine."

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Other quotes by Margaret Hilda Thatcher.
"I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near."

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Other quotes by Margaret Hilda Thatcher.
"What is success I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose."

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Other quotes by Frederick Winslow Taylor.
"Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerably amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and convince his employer that he is going at a good price."

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Other quotes by Hunter S. Thompson.
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."

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Other quotes by Leo Tolstoy.
"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."

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Other quotes by J Tolkein.
"His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all."

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Other quotes by James Grover Thurber.
"One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, cooperation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs.... He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight."

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"All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose."

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Other quotes by Dr. Dale E. Turner.
"God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives--DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER."

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"Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future."

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Other quotes by Jeremy Taylor.
"Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power."

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Other quotes by Unknown.
"All I want to do is to minister to someone, And if I do that, Then the Lord's work in me has been done."

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Other quotes by Dr. Dale E. Turner.
"In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self-examination. It is forgivable to make mistakes, but to stand fast behind a wall of self-righteousness and make the same mistake twice is not forgivable."

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"Don't deny hope it's chance to work magic"

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"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art."

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"The human race is faced with a cruel choice work or daytime television."

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"Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others."

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Other quotes by Bill Vaughan.
"Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those conditions, work is great too."

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Other quotes by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire.
"Hamlet is a course and barbarous play. One might think the work is the product of a drunken savage's imagination."

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"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."

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Other quotes by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr..
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say."

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Other quotes by Rose Walker.
"Have you even been in love Horrible, isn't it It makes you so vulnrable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like 'maybe we should just be friends' or 'how very perceptive' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love."

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Other quotes by Daniel Webster.
"If we work upon marble, it will perish if we work upon brass, time will efface it if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity."

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"All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work."

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Other quotes by Paul Weyrich.
"We are different from previous generations of conservatives. We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country."

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Other quotes by E. B. White.
"Writing is hard work and bad for the health."

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Other quotes by John F. Welch.
"We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies--in the minds of those closest to the work. It's been there in front of our noses all along while we've been running around chasing robots and reading books on how to become Japanese--or at least manage like them."

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Other quotes by George Whitefield.
"We are immortal until our work on earth is done."

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Other quotes by Thornton.
"Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day."

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Other quotes by Emlyn Williams.
"The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless."

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Other quotes by Walter Williams.
"History is not going to be kind to liberals. With their mindless programs, they've managed to do to Black Americans what slavery, Reconstruction, and rank racism found impossible destroy their family and work ethic."

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Other quotes by Earl Wilson.
"The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise."

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Other quotes by Oprah Winfrey.
"I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you."

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Other quotes by Woodrow Wilson.
"America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses."

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Other quotes by Oprah Winfrey.
"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work."

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Other quotes by Frank W. Woolworth.
"Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can."

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Other quotes by Steven Wright.
"I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place."

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Other quotes by Henry M. Wriston.
"Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant."

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Other quotes by Margaret Young.
"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want."

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Other quotes by Frank Zappa.
"Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff."

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Other quotes by Orville Wright.
"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance."

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"Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working."

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"God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project."

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Other quotes by Sybil Adelman.
"In Kyudo philosophy, you don't aim--you become one with the target. Then, in fact, there's nothing to aim at. I find it works well with women, too. Give it a try."

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Other quotes by Pearl Buck.
"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it."

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Other quotes by Edgar Bergen.
"Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance"

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Other quotes by Warren Beatty.
"You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play."

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Other quotes by James M. Barrie.
"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else."

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Other quotes by James M. Barrie.
"I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life."

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Other quotes by Robert Bringle.
"Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want."

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Other quotes by Henry Bromel.
"They say dreams are the windows of the soul--take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts."

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Other quotes by Irving Berlin.
"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there."

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Other quotes by Sam Donaldson.
"I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny."

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Other quotes by Cato the Elder.
"Even though work stops, expenses run on."

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Other quotes by Ellen DeGeneres.
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it."

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Other quotes by Ellen DeGeneres.
"I was coming home from kindergarten--well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves."

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Other quotes by Robert Fulford.
"I have seen the future and it doesn't work."

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Other quotes by Jay Gould.
"I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half."

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Other quotes by Gallagher.
"Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work."

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Other quotes by Adrienne E. Gusoff.
"Things could always be worse for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post Office."

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Other quotes by R. E. Hellmund.
"Engineering is an activity other than purely manual and physical work which brings about the utilization of the materials and laws of nature for the good of humanity."

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Other quotes by Barbara Hall.
"One of the things that keeps you from dropping them in the nearest volcano is that you had to work too hard to get them. You had to cry, you had to scream, you had to sweat, you had to cuss out health care officials, and when that's all over with, you'll be willing to put up with a lot more from your kids."

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"Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work."

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Other quotes by Christopher Hampton.
"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs."

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Other quotes by George Jessel.
"The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public."

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Other quotes by Anna Lappe.
"Courage is saying, Maybe what I'm doing isn't working maybe I should try something else."

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Other quotes by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.
"To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still."

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Other quotes by Harold B. Lee.
"The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the wall of our own homes."

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Other quotes by Phillip Lopate.
"The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'."

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Other quotes by Maxine Hong Kingston.
"The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods."

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Other quotes by Joe E. Lewis.
"You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough."

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Other quotes by Anne Lamott.
"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work You don't give up."

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Other quotes by Julie Morgenstern.
"If you're afraid to let someone else see your weakness, take heart Nobody's perfect. Besides, your attempts to hide your flaws don't work as well as you think they do."

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Other quotes by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
"Funny business, a woman's career the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted."

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"Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public."

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Other quotes by Barbara Mikkelson.
"Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few."

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Other quotes by Stephen Nachmanovitch.
"The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge."

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"Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form."

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"He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes."

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"On being an actor .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky."

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"My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.'"

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"Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction."

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"I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope."

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"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group there was much less competition."

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Other quotes by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
"I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love."

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"Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action."

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Other quotes by Alexander Graham.
"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."

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Other quotes by Antonio Gramsci.
"In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty. Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work after puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious, tyrannical, insufferable. Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late then of course the stick and violence enter the scene and yield very few results indeed. Why not instead take an interest in the child during the first period"

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"I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves."

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"It is one thing to decry the rat race...that is the good and honorable work of moralists. It is quite another thing to quit the rat race, to drop out, to refuse to run any further--that is the work of the individualist. It is offensive because it is impolite it makes the rebuke personal the individualist calls not his or her behavior into question, but mine."

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"Earlier people used to switch on TV's after getting bored with their routine work. Now they switch on to routine work after getting bored with TV."

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"If you go through a lot of hammers each month, I don't think it necessarily means you're a hard worker. It may just mean that you have a lot to learn about proper hammer maintenance."

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"If you work on a lobster boat, sneaking up behind someone and pinching him is probably a joke that gets old real fast."

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"What a wonderful thing it is to be sure of one's faith How wonderful to be a member of the evangelical church, which preaches the free grace of God through Christ as the hope of sinners If we were to rely on our works--my God, what would become of us"

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"Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success Indeed it does not ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind."

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"Senator, I am one of them. You do not seem to understand who I am. I am a black woman, the daughter of a dining-car worker ... If my life has any meaning at all, it is that those who start out as outcasts can wind up as being part of the system."

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"Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more."

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"We all do everything, share the work--there's no room around here for a star, for someone to think she's above the others. You're expected to pitch in on whatever needs doing. Nothing is beneath your dignity. But on the other hand, nothing is beyond your reach."

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"Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them."

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"All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world."

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"Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives."

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"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."

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"Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works."

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"Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy."

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"Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best."

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"By the work one knows the workmen."

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"You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind--not all of a sudden, perhaps not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement--but you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time."

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Other quotes by Bob Hope.
"If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf."

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