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«I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them. [On models]»
«Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.»
«Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don?t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it?s at work or with your family.»
«If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study»
Author: Leslie Stephen | Keywords: at work, work on
«Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.»
«My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.»
Author: Sandra Day O'Conner | About: Voting | Keywords: at work, for a while
«Morning is the best of all times in the garden. The sun is not yet hot. Sweet vapors rise from the earth. Night dew clings to the soil and makes plants glisten. Birds call to one another. Bees are already at work.»
«One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, co-operation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs. He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.»
«I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.»
Author: Henry James | Keywords: at large, at work
«Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.»

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