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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

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Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

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What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?

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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

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Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

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For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen The martyrs call the world.

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If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.

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... one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them.

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We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

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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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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

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I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always we are invited to work; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.

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What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which never halt, Myself unwitting where their Master dwells?

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Do your work, but do your thing.

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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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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

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Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

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My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.

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Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

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