"It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else."

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"It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else."

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"Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

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"It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media."

Chuck Klosterman, American Critic

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"After an eight-hour day workers require three overtime hours to produce two regular hours of results."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"Our boss has been so successful he deserves to retire so that he can spend more time . . . with his servants."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on."

Marcel Proust, French Author

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"At home I am a man, at work I am a machine."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it."

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"A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be."

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"A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting."

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"The most useless are those who never change through the years."

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"I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life."

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"That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse."

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"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?"

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