"If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union."
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"In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer."
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"Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments."
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"When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky."
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"Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life. We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things."
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"No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility."
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"What one has to do usually can be done."
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"It's not so much what the job gives you, it's what you give to the job."
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"People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are."
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"It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work."
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"We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work, although, there has been in these days, some interest in this kind of thing."
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"Love and work, work and love...that's all there is."
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"Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited."
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"Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience."
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"To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work."
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"Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst."
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"Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it."
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"Housework can kill you if done right."
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"Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid."
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"I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business."
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