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Quotes 1561 till 1580 of 1709.

  • Basil Bunting Who says it's poetry, anyhow?
    My ten year old
    can do it and rhyme.
    Mr Hines says so, and he's a schoolteacher,
    he ought to know.
    Go and find work
    Source: Odes What The Chairman Told Tom, II:6
    Basil Bunting
    British poet (1900 - 1985)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Anthony Robbins Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Barbra Streisand Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Philip Larkin Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Will it, and set to work briskly.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Denis Waitley Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Denis Waitley Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Aristotle Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Billy Koch With a fresh start, I hope it'll work out good. I know the whole Fox story and how he came over here and had a great year for them. I'm hoping that's what it'll be - fresh start, new faces, new team, new city. I'm looking forward to getting out there.
    Billy Koch
     
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  • Art Spiegelman With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.
    Art Spiegelman
    American cartoonist and editor (1948 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki With the depth of the women's game, the entertainment it gives, and the work we put into it, I think equal pay is right.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Natasha Josefowitz Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.
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  • Gordon B. Hinckley Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
    Gordon B. Hinckley
    American religious leader and author (1910 - 2008)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Albert Camus Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Barber Conable Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
    Source: The Conable years at the World Bank: major policy addresses of Barber B. Conable, 1986-91
    Barber Conable
    American politician (1922 - 2003)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Work alone is noble.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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