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- That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?
- Sojourner Truth (1797 - 1883), Women's Convention, Akron Ohio, 1851
- Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.
- John Locke (1632 - 1704)
- I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
- I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
- Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
- If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.
- George Gilder
- That's the thing with suicide pacts. Sometimes they only really work if they catch you by surprise.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 10-11-05
- Hard work's a good distraction.
- Scott Westerfeld, Uglies, 2005
- And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God.
- Bible, Romans viii. 28.
- Every man's work shall be made manifest.
- Bible, 1 Corinthians iii. 13.
- Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love.
- Bible, 1 Thessalonians i. 3.
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