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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?

by Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Activist, American , born in 1970) keywords: alone, battles, class, fight, history , labor

Barbara Stanwyck

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.

by Barbara Stanwyck (Actor, American , born in 1907) keywords: career, job , paid

I was privileged to serve as a judge.

by Kenneth Starr (Lawyer, American , born in 1946) keywords: judge, privileged , serve

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

by John Steinbeck (Author, American , born in 1902) keywords: grateful, lion, mouse, pride, profession , roar

Adlai E. Stevenson

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

by Adlai E. Stevenson (Politician, American , born in 1970) keywords: business, law, profession, repair, service, shop , station

I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.

by Twyla Tharp (Dancer, American , born in 1941) keywords: best, privileged , pushed

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

by Alvin Toffler (Author, American , born in 1928) keywords: bureaucrats, managers , trained

Arnold J. Toynbee

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

by Arnold J. Toynbee (Historian, British , born in 1889) keywords: accomplishment, between, blur, line, play, supreme , work

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

by Mark Twain (Author, American , born in 1970) keywords: body , work

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

by Mark Twain (Author, American , born in 1970) keywords: avoided, evil, necessary , work

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

by Voltaire (Writer, French , born in 1970) keywords: cultivate, eden, garden, man , work

Booker T. Washington

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

by Booker T. Washington (Educator, American , born in 1856) keywords: comes, ever, except, hard, having, nothing, result, work , worth

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

by Oscar Wilde (Dramatist, Irish , born in 1970) keywords: classes, curse, drinking , work

I hate working out. Because I work out for films now solely I come to associate it with work.

by Bruce Willis (Actor, American , born in 1955) keywords: associate, because, come, films, hate, now, out, solely, work , working

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

by Stevie Wonder (Musician, American , born in 1950) keywords: work , ya

In a way, my past gives me a little credibility. Not that anybody cares what I did nineteen years ago, but I did have a career, and a legitimate one, before I met my husband.

by Pia Zadora (Actor, American , born in 1953) keywords: career, husband , legitimate

If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.

by Emil Zatopek (Athlete, Czechoslovakian , born in 1922) keywords: training, work, working , effort

What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.

by Clara Zetkin (Politician, German , born in 1970) keywords: labour, price , women

I was a stuntman for over fifteen years.

by Chuck Zito (Celebrity, American , born in 1953) keywords: stuntman

Mortimer Zuckerman

Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset.

by Mortimer Zuckerman (Publisher, Canadian , born in 1937) keywords: class, masters, public , worker

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