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Work Quotes by Thomas Paine
- ...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of…
- As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity:…
- But in addition to all the moral evidence against the Bible, I will, in the progress of this work, produce such other evidence as even…
- The aristocracy are not the farmers who work the land, and raise the produce, but are the mere consumers of the rent; and when compared…
- Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never…
- For my own part, my belief in the perfection of the Deity will not permit me to believe that a book so manifestly obscure, disorderly,…
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach