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- There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- We believe that if men have the talent to invent need machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many people who work without living.
- Charles Reynolds Brown
- You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.
- Julian Fellowes, Downton Abbey, Season 2, Episode 9, 2010
- Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
- James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
- As a cure for worrying, work is better than whisky.
- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
- Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
- The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgement that the community has already reached.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
- I don't understand why people think everything has to have meaning. While painting the Mona Lisa did Leonardo Da Vinci intend for it to have greater meaning than a work of art that he made?
- Devin J. Monroe (1983 - )
- In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished--a word that for them has no sense--but abandoned; and this abandonment, whether to the flames or to the public (and which is the result of weariness or an obligation to deliver) is a kind of an accident to them, like the breaking off of a reflection, which fatigue, irritation, or something similar has made worthless.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
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