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DREAMSNever by many are marvels wrought,By one or two are the dreams first caught. . .The dreamer mu...

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Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.

It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an ho...

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Edward AbbeyPostcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

I have had no contact with the Chinese government. I only work with journalists.

But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it ...

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Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to wo...

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

We work to become not to acquire.

If you want a work well done select a busy man: the other kind has no time.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. O...

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A woman who becomes famous through her work reduces her erotic value. A woman is permitted to chat o...

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I was destined to work with dying patients. I had no choice when I encountered my first AIDS patient...

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Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the o...

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Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn...

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Most of my writing life consist of nothing more than unglamorous, disciplined labor. I sit at my des...

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Elizabeth GilbertBig Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Work with all your heart, because - I promise - if you show up for your work day after day after day...

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Elizabeth GilbertBig Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.

If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly q...

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It's not the having it's the getting.

I will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts.

I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're al...

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Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this fo...

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The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education....

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All the food that is put into the stomach that the system cannot derive benefit from, is a burden to...

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Study and work and work and study will keep in active exercise both the physical and mental. These t...

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Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that yo...

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When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need i...

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I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty I woke and found that life was Duty.

I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valle...

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I could go and buy one of the islands in theBahamas and turn it into my personal fiefdom, but I am m...

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I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved i...

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A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other...

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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity and let my efforts be known by their result...

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A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other...

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I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and bein...

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I find that music makes people just sit and listen, firstly. Then, they seem to interpret their own ...

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The free man does what he likes in his working time and in his spare time what is required of him. T...

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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

We're programmed for suffering, not joy. The masochism is built in at a very early age. You're suppo...

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The supreme principle of socialism is that man takes precedence over things, life over property, and...

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Erich FrommOn Disobedience: Why Freedom Means Saying No to Power

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work...

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When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible....

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I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. I...

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The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on...

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…Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge a...

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Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softene...

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Ernest HemingwayThe Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw ...

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What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good...

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When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how ...

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The workers are the saviors of society the redeemers of the race.

He found that the business of optimism was no mean task.

The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and we...

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I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to tak...

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If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability ...

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Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to t...

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A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work.

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you...

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Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I fol...

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Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test t...

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I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due t...

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Be kind and generous to your fellows, but hard and relentless with yourself.

I don't want euro bonds that serve to mutualize the entire debt of the countries in the euro zone. T...

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I always believe things are going to work out.

My agent gets 10 percent of everything I get except the blinding headaches.

She used to be a schoolteacher but she has no class now.

Vocation” comes from the Latin vocare (to call) and means the work a man is called to by God.There a...

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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earne...

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Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are th...

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The drive to knowledge has become too strong for us to be able to want happiness without knowledge o...

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Friedrich NietzscheDaybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

The eternal child. - We think that play and fairy tales belong to childhood:how shortsighted that is...

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The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those...

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It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth i...

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Would this country be better off if no one drank? Yes, it would be, but we tried that; it doesn't wo...

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We should make it as easy as possible to be able to get a legal work visa - not citizenship, not a g...

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Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it

I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibi...

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Before I ever knew what the word Entrepeneur was, I realized in America and in the Western part of ...

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I always like to be in the presence of people who are good at and love their jobs, Irrespective of t...

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Geoff DyerAnother Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush

A people so primitive that they did not know how to get money except by working for it.

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to ...

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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times mor...

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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life ...

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Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.

There's a funny thing about fame. The truth is you run as fast as you can towards it because it's ev...

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Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a te...

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You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. ...

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If and when all the laws governing physical phenomena are finally discovered, and all the empirical ...

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I wanted to race cars. I didn't like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right befo...

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When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more ...

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Work done is of more consequence for the future than the foresight of an angel.

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George MacDonaldUnspoken Sermons: Series I

Is a PLONGEUR'S work really necessary to civilization? We have a feeling that it must be 'honest' wo...

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George OrwellDown and Out in Paris and London