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Quotes 381 till 400 of 1709.

  • Barbara Hepworth Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.
    Barbara Hepworth
    English artist and sculptor (1903 - 1975)
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  • Bono Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • David Grayson Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.
    David Grayson
    American journalist, historian and author, pen name of Ray Baker (1870 - 1946)
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  • Edgar Bergen Hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
    Source: Goldman - Teachers: Jokes, Quotes, and Anecdotes (2001)
    Edgar Bergen
    American actor and comedian (1903 - 1978)
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  • Charlie McCarthy Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
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  • Sam Ewing Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
    Sam Ewing
    American baseball player (1949 - )
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  • Robert Half Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
    Robert Half
    American businessman, founder of Robert Half HR consulting firm
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  • Carolyn Murphy Having a child keeps you very grounded. So when I decided to have a child, I made it clear to the people I work with that my job was no longer my priority.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Norman Tebbit He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work.
    Norman Tebbit
    British politician (1931 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle He that can work is born to be king of something.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Jeremy Collier He that has his own troubles and the happiness of his neighbours to disturb him has work enough.
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Theodor Reik He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.
    Theodor Reik
    Austrian-American psychoanalyst (1888 - 1969)
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  • B. W. Powe Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.
    Source: Towards A Canada of Light Maxims and Enigmas, p. 29
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Adriana Lima Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.
    Adriana Lima
    Brazilian model and actress (1981 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Bennie Thompson History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work.
    Bennie Thompson
    American politician (1948 - )
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  • Ben Hecht Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Alfred Nobel Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
    Alfred Nobel
    Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist (1833 - 1896)
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  • Anne Lamott Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
    Anne Lamott
    American novelist and non-fiction writer (1954 - )
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