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No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human ...

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My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's...

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I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

Fritz had to stop himself from interrupting when Karl spoke about the difficulty of working. Stories...

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Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as ...

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I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of, because...

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I think most of us are looking for a calling, not a job. Most of us, like the assembly-line worker, ...

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Studs TerkelWorking: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working t...

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I liked to feel I had to do things perfectly; I felt I was earning my freedom. Though I was in hidin...

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I just can't do heels any more. At least not when I'm working. I travel a lot.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to d...

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It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

My dad could be beyond brilliant but totally introverted. If we're talking about computers, he's on....

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I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equ...

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Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as n...

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I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on stero...

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently ...

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If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to re...

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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed...

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Human life and human labour were near. I must struggle on: strive to live and bend to toil like the ...

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The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese onc...

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We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a let...

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But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without,...

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Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and o...

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

There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or o...

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Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motio...

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You can't be too careful about work. It's the most dangerous habit known to medical science.

One of the joys of working with boys is that you get your pay as you go along. You can observe the r...

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Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

Some of you, we all know, are poor, find it hard to live, are sometimes, as it were, gasping for bre...

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In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is cle...

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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smooth...

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I think you're working and learning until you die.

One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train our...

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What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.

I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

My sisters both are working mothers. I understand that my being an actress as well as being at home ...

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Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term a...

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Ninety percent of paid work is time-wasting crap. The world gets by on the other ten.

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John DerbyshireWe Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism

What really helps me is being able to record my albums at home - I have more fun experimenting that ...

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Quite often, while I'm getting up in the morning, I think my warranty is running out on these body p...

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We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because th...

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When I'm working, I need to be pretty disciplined, but I do like to enjoy my food. I like to keep it...

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I'm slowly working up the courage to sing in front of other people, but I can carry a tune. I do som...

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After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in th...

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If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the mo...

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Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the...

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I’m a firm believer that most people who do great things are doing them for the first time. Returnin...

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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

If you're ruling the world, you can't trust anybody. Because even those who profess to be working in...

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I never enjoyed working in a film.

I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, the...

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I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even thos...

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It's cool to go places where working people are happy.

We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries ...

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There are those who work so they can stop. Stopping is the why of work.There are those who stop so t...

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Clockers" asks--almost in passing, and there's a lot more to it than this--a pretty interesting ques...

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