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«A fair return for their labor so as to have good homes, good clothing, good food»
Author: Daniel Webster (Orator, Senator, Statesman) | About: Work | Keywords: clothing, homes, so as to
«A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.»
Author: Fred Allen (Comedian) | About: Celebrity, Work | Keywords: dark glasses, glasses, well known
«A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work»
Author: Karl Abraham | About: Work | Keywords: considerable, outbreak, outbreaks, phenomena
«A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist»
Author: Louis Nizer | About: Jobs, Work | Keywords: craftsman, laborer, works
«A great work of art is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty»
Author: Nadia Boulanger | About: Liberty, Work | Keywords: combination, work of art
«Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.»
Author: Rebecca West (Writer) | About: Work
«A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.»
«A large proportion of the human race, it is true, is obliged to work so hard in obtaining the necessaries that little energy is left over for the other purposes; but those whose livelihood is assured do not, on that account, cease to be active»
«A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.»
«A bad worker quarrels with his tools»
Author: Proverb | About: Work | Keywords: quarrels, worker

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