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Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation.

– Calvin Coolidge

Age to me means nothing. I can't get old I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.

– George Burns

Alas, for him who is gone and hath done no good work! The trumpet of march has sounded, and his load was not bound on.

– Persian

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

– Calvin Coolidge

All I want to do is to minister to someone, And if I do that, Then the Lord's work in me has been done.

– Unknown

All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf -that work I abhor- then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.

– Katherine Paterson

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

– Brian Tracy

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

– John Hay

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

– John Bay

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

– Mickey Rooney

Always remember, you can never finish work, but work can finish you.

– Louis Keisler

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

– Woodrow Wilson

Americans who had traveled in Europe knew the 'free' European peasants suffered considerably greater oppression and misery than did American bondsman. Modern scholarship has shown that the exploitation rate -- the percentage of the worker's production that was taken from him by his owners -- was lower among the slaves than among European peasants, that work loads were light, and that slaves actually experienced a considerable measure of personal freedom.

– Forest McDonald

Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant.

– Henry M. Wriston

An honest man is the noblest work of God.

– Alexander Pope

And the work of righteousness shall be peace and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.

– Bible

And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.

– Bible, Isaiah 32:17

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

– Robert Graves

Any great work of art . . . revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

– Leonard Bernstein

Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity.

– W. Kelly Griffith

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

– Robert Morley

Apathy isn't it. We can do something. So flower power didn't work. So what. We start again.

– John Lennon

Arbeit macht frei. (Work sets you free).

– Major Rudolph Hoss, Auschwitz Gate

Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

– Dale Carnegie

As a kid, I dreamed of a knight in shining armor coming to rescue me. Now, I just dream of equal pay for equal work.

– Ingrid Weir

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