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A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

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The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit. Then he is part of the machine he moves; the man is lost.

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Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!

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I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.

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And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced them. But it has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.

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The Way of the Sage is to act but not to compete.

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Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

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Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

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Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

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In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.

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God always strives together with those who strive.

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We're getting rid of the D [in PTSD]. PTS is an injury; it's not a disorder. The problem is when you call it a disorder, [veterans] don't think they can be treated. An employer says, 'I don't want to hire somebody with a disorder.

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Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

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All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

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Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

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On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.

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Soldiers win battles and generals get the medals.

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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.

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