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“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”

“A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.”

Different Character America Values Social Born Work Movement Promise Majority Traditional 80s Outlook Social Movements

Author:Daniel Yankelovich

“Some people were born to work for others. Not in a mindless, servile-way--rather they simply work better in a set regimen of daily tasks and functions. Others were born of the entrepreneurial spirit and enjoy the demands of self-determination and the roll of the dice.”

People Way Self Spirit Enjoy Born Work Demand Determination Tasks Function Self Determination Entrepreneurial Mindless Dice Entrepreneurial Spirit Daily Tasks

Book:The Christmas Box Miracle: My Spiritual Journey of Destiny, Healing and Hope

Source: The Christmas Box Miracle: My Spiritual Journey of Destiny, Healing and Hope

“Work is its own best earthly meed, Else have we none more than the sea-born throng Who wrought those marvellous isles that bloom afar.”

Born Work Sea Afar Marvellous Isle

Book:The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

“Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.”

Men Born Work Aptitude

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves, and sunglasses.”

Beautiful Wish Born Work Dancing Studios Eras Pants Genes Going To Work Sunglasses Scarves

Author:Catherine Zeta-Jones

“Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want?”

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else--we are the busiest people in the world.”

People World Feelings Happiness Time Born Work Results Our Lives One Thing Ought Contrary Vague Full Life

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“If I were born again, I would still be an industrialist. I complain because it's very hard work with no weekends, but I would still do it.”

Ifs Stills Hard Born Work Business Hard Work Complaining Weekend Born Again

Author:Sak?p Sabanc?

“He that can work is born to be king of something.”

Born Work Birth Kings

Book:The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

“Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world - only to serve the People of Israel,. Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat. That is why gentiles were created.”

People World Hate Born Work Needed Jew Israel Judaism Israeli Reap Pagan Places In The World Hebrew Supremacy Rabbi Gentiles Plowing Gentility Goyim

Author:Ovadia Yosef

“Among a democratic people, where there is no hereditary wealth, every man works to earn a living, or is born of parents who have worked. The notion of labor is therefore presented to the mind, on every side, as the necessary, natural, and honest condition.”

People Men Mind Parent Sides Born Natural Work Wealth Conditions Honest Labor Democratic Notion Every Man Hereditary

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work with, for those who will, and blessed are the horny hands of toil. The busy world shoves angrily aside the man who stands with arms akimbo until occasion tells him what to do; and he who waits to have his task marked out shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled.”

Men World Hands Dies Waiting Born Work He Man Arms Tools Tasks Blessed Busy Occasions Toil Horny Errands

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell