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Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only is meritorious; and to it all the products of labour rightfully belong; but the two latter, while they exist, are heavy pensioners upon the first, robbing it of a large portion of it's just rights. The only remedy for this is to, as far as possible, drive useless labour and idleness out of existence.

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

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Punctuality is the thief of time

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If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

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Do your work, but do your thing.

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Work hard at work worth doing.

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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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A human being isn't meant to be some kind of machine designed only for production. No. Human life isn't just for work.

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Don't ever confuse motion with progress.

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... it is the work and not the reward that is precious.

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

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

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Work makes a callus against grief.

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And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.

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Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

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Work is love made visible.

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The end of labor is to gain leisure.

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If a man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.

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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 country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

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