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Quotations by Subject: Work (71 quotes)

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Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables
Money is a powerful aphrodisiac. But flowers work almost as well.: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.: Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970)
The only place where democracy comes before work is in the dictionary.: Ralph Nader (1934 - ), 2000 NAACP Address
In every work of genius we see our own rejected thoughts.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Self Reliance
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Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.: Joseph Priestley
...free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.: Tamora Pierce, Alanna The First Adventure
The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers. He cannot, like the architects, cover his failures with trees and vines. He cannot, like the politicians, screen his sort-comings by blaming his opponents and hope the people will forget. The engineer simply cannot deny he did it. If his works do not work, he is damned.: Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964), Opening Quote of Chapter 5, Introduction to Aeronautics: A Design Perspective by Steven Brandt et Al.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don't seem so bad lately.: Scott Adams (1957 - ), The Dilbert Blog: Atheists: The New Gays, 11-19-06
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My mom grew up in Spanish Harlem and the Bronx and gave me an invaluable piece of advice for dealing with people in New York - if someone's bugging you just act crazy. I've modified her approach somewhat. Public displays of religiosity work just as well as feigning psychosis.: Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant, 01-14-10
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