"God created man, but I could do better."
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"To the worker, God himself lends aid."
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"'Tis not need we know our every thought Or see the work shop where each mask is wrought Wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, Careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit And serve our jape's turn for a night or two."
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"I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure."
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"The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both."
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"None but those who work are entitled to eat."
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"Implementation beats oration."
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"Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working."
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"Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions, demanded by work, become easier and simpler where they are made not in the fear of men, but only in the sight of God. He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work."
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"I have always been a firm believer in working hard for what is right and for making your own breaks if you want things to change."
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"They let you dream just to watch them shatter, you're just a step on the boss man's ladder."
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"I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope. I want to keep on going out and doing what I love to do. Of course, I'm no Bob Hope, but I mean that feeling that you never are old and have things to offer and can be useful to somebody. I always want to be useful, I have no intentions of retiring unless I should get sick or something should happen to my husband. Other than that I'm going to work until I fall over."
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"Daddy worked for God, but asked for no pay. For he believed that God provides a way."
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"What a denial of our humanity that at the centers of power, where decisions are made, there is no room for nurturing, for love, and children. There is more to life than the 'inhuman' work place. It is terrible that many men do not know that: it is a tragedy if women follow them."
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"I know people dont think I work."
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"Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism."
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"If I ever loose my eyes, I won't have to cry no more."
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"Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing."
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"He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show."
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"Black people have been working hard for decades."
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