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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

Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I ...

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Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength his glory and his pleasure.

We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running...

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My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'...

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We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and ...

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By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the e...

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I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And...

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The days you work are the best days.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it ...

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The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.

All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always kee...

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When I die my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills.

A lasting relationship isn't about marriage. It's about compatibility and communication. And you bot...

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I'm extremely proud of my daughter. She's done amazing work. She's worked on herself, which I think ...

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work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everyt...

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Determine that there will never be anything that will come between you that will disrupt your marria...

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Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

As you walk your various paths, walk with faith. Speak affirmatively and cultivate an attitude of co...

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Turing was a quite brilliant mathematician, most famous for his work on breaking the German Enigma c...

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We are being tough in saying it is a duty on the unemployed in future not only to be available for w...

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'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to th...

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I recognized my work for what it was--as unimportant a drug as cigarettes to get one through the wee...

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Graham GreeneThe End of the Affair

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

We are also in the process of defining how best to work together with food and other companies to ad...

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Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in you...

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Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.

When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell sue...

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Gustave FlaubertFlaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and trav...

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Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work.

You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel—a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my...

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Unionism seldom if ever uses such powers as it has to ensure better work almost always it devotes...

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Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world the...

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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

By liberating women from household work and helping to abolish professions such as domestic service,...

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Above a certain level of income, the relative value of material consumption vis-a-vis leisure time i...

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Ha-Joon Chang23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

I didn't want to be educated. It wasn't the right time of my life for concentration, it really wasn'...

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Hanif KureishiThe Buddha of Suburbia

My life will be the best illustration of all my work.

Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.

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Harold BloomThe Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

The monarchy is a labour-intensive industry.

To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.

My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a work...

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I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what m...

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I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.

It has been my honor to support and work with President Barack Obama, a man who has brought courage ...

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It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's vi...

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Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen...

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One other thing I learned from working in a company was that the majority of people in the world hav...

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Haruki MurakamiColorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Let your body work until it is spent, but keep your mind to yourself.

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Haruki MurakamiHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Let your body work until it is spent, but keep your mind for yourself.

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Haruki MurakamiHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

I mean, all I do here is do the work that my bosses tell me to do the way they tell me to do it. I d...

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All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands...

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I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jo...

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Alone we can do so little together we can do so much.

It is beyond a doubt that everyone should have time for some special delight, if only five minutes e...

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I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I d...

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My brother-in-law had to give up his last job because of illness. His boss became sick of him.

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are...

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A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impressi...

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The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world...

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It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste

It is not enough to be busy so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Beware all enterprises that require new clothes.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure ...

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You shall see rude and sturdy, experienced and wise men, keeping their castles, or teaming up their ...

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Henry David ThoreauA Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers / Walden / The Maine Woods / Cape Cod

In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.

If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that f...

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Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupi...

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When your work speaks for itself don't interrupt.

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our pas...

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If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

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Henry JamesRoderick Hudson

I take up my own pen again - the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles. To my...

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For the man in the paddock, whose duty is is to sweep up manure,the supreme terror is the possibilit...

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The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author hims...

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No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed els...

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It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases ...

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Every global concern - economic, environmental or security-related - can be addressed more effective...

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