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«Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.»
«Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you'd care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working.»
Author: Bob Black | About: Labor, Misery, Suffering, Work
«Why do people say they wish every day was Friday? If it was always Friday, we'd be here every freakin' day.»
Author: Ed Bernard (Humorist) | About: Work
«Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.»
Author: Gordon B. Hinckley (Clergyman) | About: Work
«Women make up only 25 percent of the science, engineering and technology workforce... We are delighted to be working with NASA Ames to give Silicon Valley area girls a chance to explore and develop their potential in science at an age when many begin to drift away from their natural interest.»
Author: Sally Ride | About: Science, Women, Work
«Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.»
«Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing»
«Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.»
«Why should I have to WORK for everything?! It's like saying I don't deserve it!»
Author: Bill Watterson (Author) | About: Work
«Why should I have to work for everything?! It's like saying I don't deserve it!»
Author: Bill Watterson (Author) | About: Work