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Quotations by Subject: Work (71 quotes)

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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.: Thomas Sowell (1930 - ), Is Reality Optional?, 1993
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Weekly Articles (1981), first published 1927
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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.: Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), New York Times Feb. 13, 1959
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.: John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968), The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die.: Edward M. Kennedy (1932 - ), Democratic National Convention, 1980
People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Well I say what any decent poet would say if you dared ask him to analyse his work: if you see it, darling, then it's there.: Freddie Mercury (1946 - 1991), In an interview
I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This now answers many questions once asked of religion.: Stephen Hawking (1942 - ), Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005
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.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
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