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Workings Quotes (page 154)

Karl Marx quote: "All working men of countries unite."
All working men of countries unite. Karl Marx
Malcolm Gladwell quote: "If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind..."
If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires Malcolm Gladwell
He hated the men floating in sleep in the big stone houses. Because their lives were ordered and their rooms tidy. Because they got up every morning and did their public work. Because they weren't going to dynamite their factories and have naked parties in the fire. Leonard Cohen
At certain periods it becomes the dearest ambition of a man to keep a faithful record of his performances in a book; and he dashes at this work with an enthusiasm that imposes on him the notion that keeping a journal is the veriest pastime in the world, and the pleasantest. But, if he only lives twenty-one days, he will find out that only those rare natures that are made up of pluck, endurance, devotion to duty for duty's sake, and invincible determination, may hope to venture upon so... Mark Twain
Juliette Gordon Low quote: "The work of today is the history of tomorrow and we are its..."
The work of today is the history of tomorrow and we are its makers Juliette Gordon Low
A conservative is not merely an obstructionist who wishes to resist the introduction of novelties; nor is he, as was assumed by most 19th-century parliamentarians, a brake to frivolous experiment. He has positive work to do ... Civilization has no force of its own beyond what is given from within. It is under constant assault and it takes most of the energies of civilized man to keep going at all ... If [it] falls we shall see not merely the dissolution of a few joint-stock corporations, but... Evelyn Waugh
What I'm thinking is: here I am, lying under a haystack ... The tiny little place I occupy is so small in relation to the rest of space where I am not and where it's none of my business; and the amount of time which I'll succeed in living is so insignificant by comparison with the eternity where I haven't been and never will be ... And yet in this atom, in this mathematical point, the blood circulates, the brain works and even desires something as well .. What sheer ugliness! What sheer... Ivan Turgenev
David O. McKay quote: "The greatest work we will ever do will be within the walls of..."
The greatest work we will ever do will be within the walls of our home. David O. McKay
Going to work just looked crazy. Eating another meal, ever, made about as much sense as planting tulip bulbs in the shadow of a falling atom bomb. Chuck Palahniuk
Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can easily become the place where revolutionary feminist thought and feminist activism are submerged or made secondary to the goals of academic careerism. Bell Hooks
Mark Twain quote: "I do not like work even when someone else is doing it."
I do not like work even when someone else is doing it. Mark Twain
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how". Viktor E. Frankl
...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart. Louise Bogan
Jhonen Vasquez quote: "I don't do my work for any kind of group in particular, except..."
I don't do my work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life. Jhonen Vasquez
Walter Benjamin quote: "to great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those..."
to great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives. Walter Benjamin

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