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title: "7 Work Ought Quotes by 7 authors"
description: "Browse 7 Work Ought quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Work Ought sayings and thoughts."
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> [“What we call creative work, Ought not to be called work at all because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/what-we-call-creative-work-ought-not-to-be-called-work-at-all-because/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [The whole of education should be designed so as to occupy a boy's free time in cultivation of his body. He has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adolf-hitler/the-whole-of-education-should-be-designed-so-as-to-occupy-a-boy-s/)

[Adolf Hitler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adolf-hitler/)

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> [Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people like God loves them](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-hybels/church-work-ought-to-be-at-its-core-the-work-of-loving-people-like/)

[Bill Hybels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-hybels/)

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> [The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-martineau/the-imagination-once-awakened-must-and-will-work-and-ought-to-work/)

[Harriet Martineau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-martineau/)

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> [Those who work ought to live better than those that don't.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-g-schmitz/those-who-work-ought-to-live-better-than-those-that-don-t/)

[John G. Schmitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-g-schmitz/)

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> [If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/if-there-is-a-category-of-human-being-for-whom-his-work-ought-to/)

[Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8e/isaac-asimov-309_categories_if-there-is-a-category-of-human-being-fo_1800398.jpg)

> [...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fourier/commerce-which-is-mistakenly-classified-among-the-productive-forms-of/)

[Charles Fourier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fourier/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34d/charles-fourier-24480_business_commerce-which-is-mistakenly-classified_2215754.jpg)

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