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Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not… — Dennis Kucinich
Haste makes work which caution prevents. — William Penn
There is no work of art that is without short cuts. — Andre Gide
If you want learning, you must work for it. — J. G. Holland
The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work. — Lucian Freud
It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them. — Boris Johnson
I am always for the man who wishes to work. — Abraham Lincoln
Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged. — Abraham Lincoln
Work, work, work, is the main thing. — Abraham Lincoln
If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to… — Abraham Lincoln
Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost. — Abraham Lincoln
To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do… — Benicio Del Toro
Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple,… — Abraham Lincoln
The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country from that state… — George Washington
Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done. — John Dewey
I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out. — Bo Jackson
Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work. — George Halas
The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model… — Alexander Calder
Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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