"There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around."

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"There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around."

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"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"We try, when we wake, to lay the new day at God's feet; before we have finished shaving, it becomes our day and God's share in it is felt as a tribute which we must pay out of 'our own' pocket, a deduction from the time which ought, we feel, to be 'our own'. A man starts a new job with a sense of vocation and, perhaps, for the first week still keeps the discharge of the vocation as his end, taking the pleasures and pains from God's hand, as they came, as 'accidents'. But in the second week he is beginning to 'know the ropes': by the third, he has quarried out of the total job his own plan for himself within that job, and when he can pursue this he feels that he is getting no more than his rights, and when he cannot, that he is being interfered."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart."

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"Employment stereotypes you."

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"The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere."

Kim Novak, American Actress

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"I used to work at a puppy nursery."

Channing Tatum, American Actor

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"I'm sure Alex will be having to get the masseurs in to work on those legs. You feel tired when you're losing but when you are winning it gives you that bit of an edge."

Graham Roberts, English Actor

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"I learned the value of hard work by working hard."

Margaret Mead, American Scientist

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