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“There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone.”

World Years Littles Done Whole Natural Work Duty Months Machines Whole Life Inevitable Degrade Drudgery

Book:The Outline of History

Source: The Outline of History

“The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.”

Firsts Humans Real Jobs Community Work Human Beings Duty Assuming Being Real Real Jobs

Author:Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.”

Life Success Life Is Joy Work Pleasure Duty Labor Slavery Work Effort Joy In Work

Author:Maxim Gorky

“To work is not only a right, it is a duty. To work to the full capacity of one's powers is necessary for human development - the full use of one's best faculties - this is the health and happiness for both man and woman.”

Men Humans Use Work Duty Development Men And Women Capacity Faculty Human Development

Book:Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays: The Yellow Wallpaper, What Diantha Did, Women and Economics, The Crux, Moving the Mountain, Herland and other works from the prominent American feminist, sociologist and novelist

Source: Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays: The Yellow Wallpaper, What Diantha Did, Women and Economics, The Crux, Moving the Mountain, Herland and other works from the prominent American feminist, sociologist and novelist

“I sometimes feel a great ennui, profound emptiness, doubts which sneer in my face in the midst of the most spontaneous satisfactions. Well, I would not exchange all that for anything, because it seems to me, in my conscience, that I am doing my duty, that I am obeying a superior fatality, that I am following the Good and that I am in the Right.”

Feels Wells Sometimes Seems Faces Work Doubt Duty Conscience Profound Satisfaction Following Superiors Emptiness Midst Spontaneous Obeying Ennui Sneer Fatality

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“The matter of consulting experienced workers, of keeping all the workers informed of changes in production and wage methods, and how the changes are arrived at, seems to me the most important duty in the whole field of management.”

Important Matter Whole Seems Work Fields Duty Management Method Workers Productions Consulting

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“We till shadowed days are done, We must weep and sing Duty's conscious wrong, The Devil in the clock”

Done Work Duty Conscious Devil Labor Clock

Book:Canción de cuna y otros poemas

Source: Canción de cuna y otros poemas

“The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.”

Men Has Beens Done Suffering Work Duty Difficulty Inspired Trials Shore Tides Exhausted Tidy Greatest Man

Book:Character. Repr

Source: Character. Repr

“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for our own improvement, and at the same time share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.”

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Author:Marie Curie

“We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one's happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.”

Men Mind Self Life Is Evil Work Duty Guilt Rewards Strikes Pursuit Doctrine Creeds Dogma

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Love is an act of endless forgiveness. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.”

Mean Easy Work Forget Love Is Practice Duty Forgiveness Determination Forgiving Endless Inconvenient Forgive Yourself

Author:Peter Ustinov

“...perhaps the most distinguishing trait of visionary leaders is that they believe in a goal that benefits not only themselves, but others as well. It is such vision that attracts the psychic energy of other people, and makes them willing to work beyond the call of duty for the organization.”

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Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he must be self-supporting. To live on the labor of others, either by force which enslaves, or by cunning which robs, or by borrowing or begging, is wholly dishonorable. Every man should be taught some useful art.”

Men Should Firsts Humans Art Self Care Force Work Human Beings Taught Duty Labor Take Care Every Man Cunning Begging Borrowing Dishonorable

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“No democratic world will work as it should work until we recognize that we can only enjoy any right so long as we are prepared to discharge its equivalent duty. This applies just as much to states in their dealing with one another as to individuals within the states.”

World Should Long States Individual Enjoy Work Justice Duty Democratic Prepared Preparation Discharge

Author:Anthony Eden