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"The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it."
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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."

"Love by the sweat of thy brow.Not through whispered words of hollow sound or lofty dreams ne'er substance bound that more than oft do run aground. Nay, love with mighty, blistered hands that turn the soil and carve the land. A bearer of toil and golden band. Be strong! A founder of the feast! Protective knight who slays the beast! For promises and vows aloud are naught but wispy veneer shroud like cobwebs, frail, the airy words and wooing fail. So work, my darling. Toil as proof. Thy loyal heart be drained of youth and yet beat on, incessant sound. Both feet take root within the ground, and service be thy kingly crown.Love by the sweat of thy brow."

"Your life content reduces with employment."

"A specialist's mind is a slave to his specialization."
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"To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind."

"To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something."

"Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized."

"But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter."

"Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil."

"Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning."
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