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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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Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.

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The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

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A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that we had been deceived. Laplace saw no question from its true point of view; he sought subtleties everywhere; had only doubtful ideas, and finally carried the spirit of the infinitely small into administration.

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The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.

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Work makes a callus against grief.

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I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats; If it be man's work, I'll do't.

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I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind.

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The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

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I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.

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Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.

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The Tao of the sage is work without effort.

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Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

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Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

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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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To be is to be related.

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It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

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Work, work, work, is the main thing.

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Let us go forth and resolutely dare with sweat of brow to toil our little day.

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