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«During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.»
«Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.»
Author: Robert E. Lee | About: Duty, Work | Keywords: sublime
«During my 17 years of employment in this building, nothing has offended me and my staff more than the erection of this huge, rusted metal barrier.»
«Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.»
Author: Jalal ad-Din Rumi (Mystic, Poet) | About: Work | Keywords: For some, particular, put in
«Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.»
Author: Mao Tse-Tung | About: Women, Work | Keywords: enable, equal pay, labour
«Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.»
Author: Paul Klee (Artist) | About: Work | Keywords: fall off, graphic, graphics, obedient
«Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him.»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Literature, Work | Keywords: conceal, pictures, portrait, spite
«Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.»
«Do you see a man who excels in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before unknown men»
Author: Bible | About: Work | Keywords: excels
«Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.»

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