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Leslie Stephen

"If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study."

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"If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study."

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"Do the good work, with the resources you have."

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"The job description, like most, used complicated words that made job-hopefuls hesitant to apply because it may be out of their range of capability."

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"When employees are motivated and love what they do you will see higher productivity, less turnover, healthier communication, increased loyalty, and a happier environment."

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"We are so used to working that not working is the new hard work."

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"The office' is a cemetery of dreams."

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"Those who work, knows the strength of labour."

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"I didn't want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank."

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"Extreme night shift work in high altitude astronomy is easily avoidable by using a split night shift where the first night shift starts before sunset and finishes at midnight and the second night shift starts with a new fresh person working through to after sunrise."

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"The summit of Mauna Kea was definitely a place where it was better to be a hard to replace skilled engineer than an easy to replace technician. It was my experience that once you had developed Mauna Kea Sickness that the management team would blatantly harass you out of your job using nasty inhumane human resources techniques."

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"If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt."
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"Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers."
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"The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood."
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"Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service."
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"Chance is a name for our ignorance."
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"If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study."
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