"Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight."

Work, Appreciation, Delight

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"Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care."

Language, Apathy, Care, Ignorance, Speech

"Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight."

Work, Appreciation, Delight

"If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing."

Work, Repetition

"The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right."

Morality, Right

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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Work, Skill, Identity, Expertise, Education

"The world system is employment."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Work, World, System, Employment, Control

"Police officers are poorly paid for a very stressful job that has them in very high powered radio frequency (RF) fields and in a daily environment that may result in them being assaulted, maimed or killed."

Steven Magee, British Author

Work, Police, Stress, Danger, Health

"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Work, Butler, Writer, Mind

"Do not be weary to make money."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Work, Do, Weary, Money, Life

"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Work, Truth, Life, Happiness, Regret

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Work, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Work, Self, Identity, Values

"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Work, Effort, Strength

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"Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care."

"Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague."

"Never assume the obvious is true."

"Have a definite opinion."

"Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight."

"If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing."

"The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right."

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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."

"The world system is employment."

"Police officers are poorly paid for a very stressful job that has them in very high powered radio frequency (RF) fields and in a daily environment that may result in them being assaulted, maimed or killed."

"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

"Do not be weary to make money."

"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."

"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."

"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"