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"Christ is the Master; the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic, although Judas, Ananias, Pilate, or Herod were its author."
"The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process"
"I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden."
"I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it's the parting that keeps us alive and keeps us working. In the case of the chariot, although it's been sold I actually still have it, just in another form."
"Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else."
"That just seems like a tough thing to do... just work in the middle of a company for your entire life. You just do the same thing out of college until you're 60, and then you retire"
"You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process."
"The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise."
"Do the right things instead of trying to do everything right."
"Boy, the things I do for England."
"When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results."
"If you had to work in the environment of Washington, D.C., as I do, and watch those men who are so imprisoned and so confined by their eighteenth-century thought patterns, you would know that if anybody is going to be liberated, it's men who must be liberated in this country."
"This was work (music industry) but it was the awakening to what was to become a life's passion."
"Shadow-making happens in families and makes us who we are. It leads to shadow-work, which makes us who we can become."
"One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his or her work important."
"He hands you a nickel, he hands you a dime. He asks you with a grin, if you're having a good time."
"If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work."
"I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in great danger I recover them."
"It is useless work that darkens the heart."
"Art is the path of the creator to his work."
