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Quotes 721 till 740 of 1709.

  • Ashley Montagu It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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  • Robert Collier It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Ben Stein It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Benjamin Hoff It means that Tao doesn't force or interfere with things, but lets them work in their own way, to produce results naturally. Then whatever needs to be done is done.
    Benjamin Hoff
    American author (1946 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Jerry Gillies It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.
    Jerry Gillies
    American writer
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  • Barack Obama It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bela Lugosi It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Carl Sagan It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls.
    Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bob Newhart It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Ben Affleck It was a dreamlike time for me from December 1997 to March of '98. Before that, I was basically unknown. Then, bang! The starting gun fired, and everybody just started running. It was learn-on-the-job. And there were more opportunities for work than I had time to do them.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Betty Buckley It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them.
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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  • Alice Hamilton It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.
    Alice Hamilton
    American physician, research scientist, and author (1869 - 1970)
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  • Barack Obama It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Anthony Doerr It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Al Gore It's a blessing to have work that feels fulfilling.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • Caitlin Stasey It's always a little bit personal when your work is cut down for whatever reason.
    Caitlin Stasey
    Australian actress (1990 - )
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  • Breckin Meyer It's always fun when you're doing the CGI stuff, to actually get to work with someone who is real, who's there.
    Breckin Meyer
    American actor, writer, producer, and drummer (1974 - )
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