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“The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo.”

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Author:Jilly Cooper

“Work is the only meanin' I've ever known. Like the man in the song says, I just gotta keep on keepin' on.”

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Author:Joe Frazier

“Don't tell me what delusion he entertains regarding God, or what mountebank he follows in politics, or what he springs from, or what he submits to from his wife. Simply tell me how he makes his living. It is the safest and surest of all known tests. A man who gets his board and lodging on this ball in an ignominious way is inevitably an ignominious man.”

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Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.”

Doe Work Known Office Glad Employment Holding On Public Office

Author:Dean Acheson

“If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.”

Ifs Work Results Effort Silence Known If I Could Obscurity

Author:Emily Bronte

“A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.”

Dies Work Known Champion Overwork

Author:Robert Frost

“Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know its nature. To love money is to known and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men. It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money - and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it.”

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

“The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic - in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea - known to medical science is work.”

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Book:The second sin

Source: The second sin

“I'm used to working hard. Theater can be very grueling, and that's all I've ever known. It's what I've done for 20 years, which is crazy.”

Years Hard Done Used Work Known Crazy Theater

Author:Sutton Foster

“Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young man spoken of as giving promise of great genius, the first question I ask about him always is, Does he work?”

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Book:The Two Paths

Source: The Two Paths