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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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The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

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

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The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.

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

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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

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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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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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You must be prepared to work always without applause.

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Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

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I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in great danger I recover them.

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Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

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Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

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I am always for the man who wishes to work.

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I've tried to be totally present, so that when I'm finished with a piece of work, I'm finished. ... The work, once completed, does not need me. The work I'm working on needs my total concentration. The one that's finished doesn't belong to me anymore. It belongs to itself.

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I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

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

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It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.

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With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

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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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