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"The purpose of work is to labor and invest time in your gift."

"Bolts work on nuts; pens work on paper. But you must work on yourself. Go, get working!"

"Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this."

"The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we give them adequate resources and modern technologies, we can protect our citizens without intruding on our liberties."

"And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with."
Explore more quotes by Jacques Barzun

"Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice."

"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap."

"The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind."

"Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions."

"A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth."

"If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real."
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