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“The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.”

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Author:William Osler

“I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope. I want to keep on going out and doing what I love to do. Of course, I'm no Bob Hope, but I mean that feeling that you never are old and have things to offer and can be useful to somebody. I always want to be useful, I have no intentions of retiring unless I should get sick or something should happen to my husband. Other than that I'm going to work until I fall over.”

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Author:Dolly Parton

“the capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them.”

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Book:Daybook, Turn, Prospect: The Journey of an Artist

Source: Daybook, Turn, Prospect: The Journey of an Artist

“Cardinal Dolan, of course, has a very, very hard job: trying to hold up Catholic family values in sexually liberal New York City. I'm not saying New York is the Gay Mecca. But it's at least Gay-rusalem.”

“In colleges, there are no gender separations in courses of study, and students can freely choose their majors. There are no male and female math classes. But women generally choose college courses that pay less in the labor market. Those are the choices that women themselves make. Those choices contribute to the pay gap.”

Source: Phyllis Schlafly: Volume I

“My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else. If they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers.”

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Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.”

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Book:The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson