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Even before the missteps that I've had, I was never going to run for office. My family is adamantly ...

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My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for to...

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I'd love to work with Aaron Sorkin on something. Just the way he writes, he has no fear in writing p...

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An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way...

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I'm always sad to see a relationship not work, but what happens between two people is not my busines...

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Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and ...

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Denis DiderotThoughts on the Interpretation of Nature and Other Philosophical Works

If you do good work, it tends to stick around. People still come up to me and say, 'The Ref' is my f...

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We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, ...

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A simple test to ascertain how much you enjoy and derive meaning from your work is to ask yourself w...

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Dennis PragerHappiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual

My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies ...

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I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they tho...

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I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.

I stagger out of bed, take the dogs outside, and then I'll get a Diet Coke and a couple of dog biscu...

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So I'm not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I'm happy that I have them; I think i...

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Marx made theory... Lenin applied it with his sense of large-scale social organization... And Henry ...

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Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the wo...

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I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never h...

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A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them.

First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my ma...

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?

I would work until I got stuck, and I would put it down and pick up something else. I might be able ...

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Poetry offers works of art that are beautiful, like paintings, which are my second favorite work of ...

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When I am president, I will work to ensure that all of our kids are treated equally and protected eq...

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Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, ex...

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What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imaginat...

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Every woman is a human being-one cannot repeat that too often-and a human being must have occupation...

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Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to wor...

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I suppose one oughtn’t to marry anybody, unless one’s prepared to make him a full-time job.”“Probabl...

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There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim direc...

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Dorothy L. SayersWhy Work?: Discovering Real Purpose

At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is...

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Dorothy L. SayersWhy Work?: Discovering Real Purpose

The only Christian work is good work well done.

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Dorothy L. SayersWhy Work?: Discovering Real Purpose

Work is the province of cattle.

Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented we'...

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Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented we'...

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Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer...

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So the hours are pretty good then?' he resumed.The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moi...

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Douglas AdamsThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Adams has done a bit of everything, from radio to television to designing computer games. Not all of...

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I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

Anti-sabbatical: A job taken with the sole intention of staying only for a limited period of time (o...

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Douglas CouplandGeneration X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: ...

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Douglas CouplandPlayer One: What Is to Become of Us

When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance t...

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I'm just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I've built a reputation as an establ...

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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the bette...

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There's this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was ...

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Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm j...

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People are just trying to work their jobs, raise their families, discipline their kids, and have a g...

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DREAMSNever by many are marvels wrought,By one or two are the dreams first caught. . .The dreamer mu...

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Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.

It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an ho...

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Edward AbbeyPostcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

I have had no contact with the Chinese government. I only work with journalists.

But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it ...

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Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to wo...

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

We work to become not to acquire.

If you want a work well done select a busy man: the other kind has no time.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. O...

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A woman who becomes famous through her work reduces her erotic value. A woman is permitted to chat o...

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I was destined to work with dying patients. I had no choice when I encountered my first AIDS patient...

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Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the o...

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Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn...

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Most of my writing life consist of nothing more than unglamorous, disciplined labor. I sit at my des...

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Elizabeth GilbertBig Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Work with all your heart, because - I promise - if you show up for your work day after day after day...

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Elizabeth GilbertBig Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.

If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly q...

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It's not the having it's the getting.

I will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts.

I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're al...

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Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this fo...

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The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education....

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All the food that is put into the stomach that the system cannot derive benefit from, is a burden to...

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Study and work and work and study will keep in active exercise both the physical and mental. These t...

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Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that yo...

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When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need i...

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I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty I woke and found that life was Duty.

I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valle...

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I could go and buy one of the islands in theBahamas and turn it into my personal fiefdom, but I am m...

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I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved i...

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A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other...

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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity and let my efforts be known by their result...

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A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other...

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I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and bein...

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I find that music makes people just sit and listen, firstly. Then, they seem to interpret their own ...

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The free man does what he likes in his working time and in his spare time what is required of him. T...

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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

We're programmed for suffering, not joy. The masochism is built in at a very early age. You're suppo...

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The supreme principle of socialism is that man takes precedence over things, life over property, and...

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Erich FrommOn Disobedience: Why Freedom Means Saying No to Power

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work...

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When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible....

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I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. I...

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The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on...

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…Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge a...

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Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softene...

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Ernest HemingwayThe Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories