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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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A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

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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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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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The only way round is through.

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

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The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace.

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To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

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Work as joy, inaccessible to the psychologists.

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When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

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I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

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Work is love made visible.

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Nothing worth having comes easy.

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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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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

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