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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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

Robert Morley

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.