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Work, work, work, is the main thing.
(Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), U.S. president. letter to John M. Brockman, Sep. 25, 1860. Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 4, p. 121, Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990).)
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A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Twelfth Selection, New York (1993).)
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Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Walden (1854), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 2, p. 364, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
(Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), French author, filmmaker. (Originally published 1918). Le Coq et l'Arlequin, Le Rappel ΰ L'Ordre (1926), repr. In Collected Works, vol. 9 (1950).)
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You put aside the work that's done, and seek some work to do.
(Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (43 B.C.-A.D. 17/18), Roman poet. Heroides, 7. 13 (Dido to Aeneas).)
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Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and organize.
(Albert Gore, Jr. (b. 1948), U.S. Democratic politician, vice president. quoted in Daily Telegraph (London, Feb. 2, 1988).
As his presidential campaign slogan.)
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Parenting can be established as a time-share job, but mothers are less good "switching off" their parent identity and turning to something else. Many women envy the father's ability to set clear boundaries between home and work, between being an on-duty and an off-duty parent.... Women work very hard to maintain a closeness to their child. Father's value intimacy with a child, but often do not know how to work to maintain it.
(Terri Apter (20th century), British psychologist. Altered Loves, ch. 2 (1990).)
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Actors work and slave—and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.
(Helen Hayes (1900-1993), U.S. actor. On Reflection, ch. 4 (1968).
Remembering actor John Drew's search for a little girl who could play her younger self in a production of The Prodigal Husband. Hayes, at thirteen, was playing a ten-year-old, and the child's hair was required to be the same ash-blonde shade as hers.)
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