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“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”— Aristotle
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“The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.”— Robert Frost
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“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.”— Alexander Pope
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“A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.”— Bertrand Russell
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“Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.”— Voltaire
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“Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter second, telling other people to do so.”— Bertrand Russell
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“It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.”— Henry Ward Beecher
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“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.”— Bertrand Russell
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“When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.”— Theodore Roosevelt
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“The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.”— Jack Welch
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“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”— Plato
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“With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”— Michael Jordan
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“There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.”— André Gide
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“The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.”— Steve Jobs
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“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.”— Pablo Picasso
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“I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.”— Ray Bradbury
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“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”— Oscar Wilde
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“No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.”— Alfred Tennyson
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“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.”— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?”— Ronald Reagan
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“Will it, and set to work briskly.”— Friedrich Schiller
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“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.”— Helen Keller
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“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.”— Anne Frank