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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It's the perfect job.

Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may.

Probably nothing in the experience of the rank and file of workers causes more bitterness and envy than the realization which comes sooner or later to many of them that they are "stuck" and can go no further.

Privatizing Social Security doesn't make sense, and it's out of step with the fundamental value of ensuring that after a life spent working hard and contributing to the greatness of our nation, every American should have a secure retirement.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

Public education is the key civil rights issue of the 21st century. Our nation's knowledge-based economy demands that we provide young people from all backgrounds and circumstances with the education and skills necessary to become knowledge workers. If we don't, we run the risk of creating an even larger gap between the middle class and the poor. This gap threatens our democracy, our society and the economic future of America.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

Punctuality is the thief of time

Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.

Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.

Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.

Red lights, green lights, stop and go jive. Headlines, deadlines, jamming your mind.

Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer thought in bean leaves and blossoms rather than in wormwood and piper and millet grass, making the earth say beans instead of grass, - this was my daily work.

Remember that work is not a place for self-fulfillment. If it were, you would know it.

REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish it from a "copy," which is made by another artist. When the two are mae with equal skill the replica is the more valuable, for it is suppose

Relax yourself from one job by doing a different one.

Rest in reason. Move in Passion.

Researchers at Harvard say that taking a power nap for an hour in the afternoon can totally refresh you. They say that by the time you wake up you'll feel so good, you'll be able to start looking for a new job.

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.

Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

Rich kids work hard. Most black kids aren't working hard enough.

She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

Science chases money, and money chases its tail, and the best minds of my generation cannot make bail.

Shadow-making happens in families and makes us who we are. It leads to shadow-work, which makes us who we can become.

School visits are something I do fairly often: I always say to the students that somebody has got to end up with the interesting careers, so why not them?

Sensuality takes planning and work.

Set up a life you don't need to escape from.

SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Silence is like a cradle holding our endeavors and our will; a silent spaciousness sustains us in our work and at the same time connects us to larger worlds that, in the busyness of our daily struggle to achieve, we have not yet investigated. Silence is the soul's break for freedom.

Since the Fall, man had accepted labor as a penance and for its power to work redemption. It was not a law of nature which forced man to work, but the effect of a curse.

Skilled work, of no matter what kind, is only done well by those who take a certain pleasure in it, quite apart from its utility, either to themselves in earning a living, or to the world through its outcome.

Six months of looking for a job had made me an expert at picking out the people who, like me, were hurrying up to wait - in somebody's outer anything for a chance to make it through their inner doors to prove that you could type two words a minute, or not drool on your blouse while answering difficult questions about your middle initial and date of birth.

Skilled workers historically have been ambivalent toward automation, knowing that the bodies it would augment or replace were theoccasion for both their pain and their power.

Small loans can transform lives, especially the lives of women and children. The poor can become empowered instead of disenfranchised. Homes can be built, jobs can be created, businesses can be launched, and individuals can feel a sense of worth again.

Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true. God created the world in six days because this number is perfect, and it would remain perfect, even if the work of the six days did not exist.

Some coaches are on power trips. I've never needed somebody to tell me I'm not working hard enough.

So little time and so little to do.

Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.

So long as there is one [person] who seeks employment and cannot find it, the hours of work are too long.

Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life. We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.