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“Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.”

Source: At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe

“Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the starvation of his children--that torture is something that private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake.”

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Author:David Lloyd George

“Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving.”

Self Done Work Pure Sake Sheer Improving Toil Drudgery

Book:Vision of the Future: Twelve Ideas for a Better Life and a Better Society

Source: Vision of the Future: Twelve Ideas for a Better Life and a Better Society

“I am not at all in favor of hard work for its own sake; many people who work very hard indeed produce terrible things, and should most certainly not be encouraged.”

People Should Hard Work Produce Hard Work Terrible Sake Favors Terrible Things Be Encouraged

Book:Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Source: Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Work, as we usually think of it, is energy expended for a further end in view; play is energy expended for its own sake, as with children's play, or as manifestation of the end or goal of work, as in "playing" chess or the piano. Play in this sense, then, is the fulfillment of work, the exhibition of what the work has been done for.”

Thinking Children Has Beens Ends Done Play Energy Goal Work Views Sake Chess Fulfillment Piano Manifestation Exhibitions Playing Chess

Book:The Great Code: The Bible and Literature

Source: The Great Code: The Bible and Literature

“In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.”

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Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“Work is doing what you now enjoy for the sake of a future which you clearly see and desire. Drudgery is doing under strain what you don't now enjoy and for no end that you can now appreciate.”

Ends Desire Enjoy Work Appreciate Sake Appreciation Strain Drudgery

Book:What Men Live by: Work, Play, Love, Worship

Source: What Men Live by: Work, Play, Love, Worship