"Work as joy, inaccessible to the psychologists."
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"What exercise is to the body, employment is to the mind and morals."
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"You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I will write it myself."
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"It's an odd job, making decent people laugh."
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"You can and you must expect suffering."
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"It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters."
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"Hey sister, you're just moving too fast, you're screwing up the quota."
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"When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell."
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"At the office where the paper grows, she takes a break, drinks another coffee, and she finds it hard to stay awake. It's just another day."
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"When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them."
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"We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we're slip sliding away."
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"Work, work, work, is the main thing."
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"It is better then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain it - keep it. If men choose to serve you, go with them; but as you have made up your organization upon principle, stand by it; for as surely as God reigns over you, and has inspired your mind, and given you a sense of propriety, and continues to give you hope, so surely will you still cling to these ideas, and you will at last come back after your wanderings, merely to do your work over again."
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"If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere."
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"I am always for the man who wishes to work."
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"Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only is meritorious; and to it all the products of labour rightfully belong; but the two latter, while they exist, are heavy pensioners upon the first, robbing it of a large portion of it's just rights. The only remedy for this is to, as far as possible, drive useless labour and idleness out of existence."
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"As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do--I just did it."
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"Let us be content to work To do the things we can, and not presume To fret because it's little."
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"If our web be framed with rotten handles, when our loom is well nigh done, our work is new to begin. God send the weaver true prentices again, and let them be denizens."
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"She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife."
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