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  • The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • I'm from Iowa, I only work in space.
        William Shatner as Kirk   Best?
  • But the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
        Arthur C. Clarke   Best?
  • J is a consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel -- than which nothing could be more absurd. Its original form, which has been but slightly modified, was that of the tail of a subdued dog, and it was not a letter but a character, standing for a Latin verb, _jacere_, "to throw," because when a stone is thrown at a dog the dog's tail assumes that shape. This is the origin of the letter, as expounded by the renowned Dr. Jocolpus Bumer, of the University of Belgrade, who established his conclusions on the subject in a work of three quarto volumes and committed suicide on being reminded that the j in the Roman alphabet had originally no curl.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affection; to give our shoulds higher aims; to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion and to bring round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles, and loving, tender hearts. My soul blesses the great Father, every day, that he has gladdened the earth with little children
        Mary Howitt   Best?
  • There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
        Woodrow Wilson   Best?
  • That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
        Thomas Carlyle   Best?
  • I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
        Henry Ford   Best?
  • If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
        Kahlil Gibran   Best?
  • There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
        Carl Jung   Best?
  • With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
        Thomas Paine   Best?
  • A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • With malice toward none, with charity for all, ...let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • I have decided that suicide is completely out of the question. I refuse to end the suffering of others... No, I must contemplate homicide and end the suffering of one... ME!!!
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • The beginning is the most important part of the work.
        Plato   Best?
  • It is the province of knowledge to speak
        Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.   Best?
  • God put me on Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I'm so far behind I will never die!
        Unknown   Best?
  • Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others.
        Unknown   Best?
  • In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
        Peter McWilliams   Best?
  • This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.
        Hortense Calisher   Best?
  • Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
        Russell Baker   Best?
  • I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
        John Cleese   Best?
  • Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
        Russell Baker   Best?
  • One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.
        Dan Quayle   Best?
  • I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.
        Steven Wright   Best?
  • I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
        Elvis Presley   Best?
  • Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
        Edgar Bergen   Best?
  • A motion to adjourn is always in order.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • A good bet is still a gamble
        Steven Josephson   Best?
  • The brain is a wonderful organ;it starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get to the office.
        Robert Frost   Best?
  • Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
        Thomas Huxley   Best?
  • HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the esat of emotions and sentiments -- a very pretty fancy which, however, is nothing but a survival of a once universal belief. It is now known that the sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid. The exact process by which a beefsteak becomes a feeling -- tender or not, according to the age of the animal from which it was cut; the successive stages of elaboration through which a caviar sandwich is transmuted to a quaint fancy and reappears as a pungent epigram; the marvelous functional methods of converting a hard-boiled egg into religious contrition, or a cream-puff into a sigh of sensibility -- these things have been patiently ascertained by M. Pasteur, and by him expounded with convincing lucidity. (See, also, my monograph, _The Essential Identity of the Spiritual Affections and Certain Intestinal Gases Freed in Digestion_ -- 4to, 687 pp.) In a scientific work entitled, I believe, _Delectatio Demonorum_ (John Camden Hotton, London, 1873) this view of the sentiments receives a striking illustration; and for further light consult Professor Dam's famous treatise on _Love as a Product of Alimentary Maceration_.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that progress gain in strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it.
        Josiah Gilbert Holland   Best?
  • True success can be tasted when you stop trying to outdo others, and instead, outdo yourself
        James Madden   Best?
  • FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs. The first mention of frogs in profane literature is in Homer's narrative of the war between them and the mice. Skeptical persons have doubted Homer's authorship of the work, but the learned, ingenious and industrious Dr. Schliemann has set the question forever at rest by uncovering the bones of the slain frogs. One of the forms of moral suasion by which Pharaoh was besought to favor the Israelities was a plague of frogs, but Pharaoh, who liked them _fricasees_, remarked, with truly oriental stoicism, that he could stand it as long as the frogs and the Jews could; so the programme was changed. The frog is a diligent songster, having a good voice but no ear. The libretto of his favorite opera, as written by Aristophanes, is brief, simple and effective -- "brekekex-koax"; the music is apparently by that eminent composer, Richard Wagner. Horses have a frog in each hoof -- a thoughtful provision of nature, enabling them to shine in a hurdle race.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • Jazz is the refuge of the untalented. When you go to a jazz club, you may notice that no one is enjoying themselves half as much as the people on stage. Jazz is like the theatre, it's what you do when you can't get a real gig.
        Tony Wilson   Best?

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