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There is no menial work in the daily living rightly carried out; that which the last century wrongly permitted is made needless by the machinery of to-day.
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Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in.
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When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful.
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The vision and action must go hand in hand.
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In place of the suspicious watchfulness and the more or less open warfare which characterizes the ordinary types of management, there is universally friendly cooperation between the management and the men.
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The principal object of management should be to secure the maximum prosperity for the employer, coupled with the maximum prosperity for each employee.
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This close, intimate, personal cooperation between the management and the men is of the essence of modern scientific or task management.
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Genius is free to announce its inventions and discoveries, and the hand is free to accomplish whatever the head conceives not incompatible with the rights of a fellow-being.
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Our young people feel nervously the need of putting theory into action, and respond quickly to the Settlement form of activity.
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Work is love made visible.
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It is not always recognized that the work itself is a great educator, and that acute cleverness in the line of work to which he is fitted comes to the worker.
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You must make up your mind to steady and earnest work. You must be content to get on slowly if you only get on thoroughly.
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The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
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Give us labour and the training which fits for labour! We demand this, not for ourselves alone, but for the race.
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We make this demand, not for our own sakes alone, but for the succour of the race.
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The more man acts and makes actual what was latent in him, the nearer does he bring the distant Yet-to-be.
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This joy of life, this joy of work, in man is absolutely true.
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The road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will usually be the most successful.
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The world is advanced only by those who more than fill their present places.
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You are to become a creator, not a competitor.
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You can do what you want to do, and it is your right and privilege to follow the business or avocation which will be most congenial and pleasant.
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Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives usually far within his limits; he possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.
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Thus worthy work carries with it the hope of pleasure in rest, the hope of the pleasure in our using what it makes, and the hope of pleasure in our daily creative skill.
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For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Attribution contested
The letter opens by naming Paul and the catalogue records that, because it is the only claim the text itself makes. Authorship is disputed: on vocabulary, style and the situation it addresses, many scholars hold it was written in Paul's name by someone in his circle after his death. That was an ordinary practice at the time and is not the same thing as forgery — but it does mean the name on the letter is not settled.
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Many hands make light work.