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~ Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world. ~

Aaron Klug

~ The threat of people acting in their own enlightened and rational self-interest strikes bureaucrats, politicians and social workers as ominous and dangerous ~

W. G. Hill

~ Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work. ~

Al Capp

~ Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he†works†for the welfare of his fellow-men. ~

Mohandas Gandhi

~ People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem. ~

Mitt Romney

~ I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.† ~

Miguel Indurain

~ If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting. ~

Laura Ingalls Wilder

~ Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.† ~

Annie Leibovitz

~ What was so good about it was that the set that they originally built stayed there, and weathered over the five years. It got five summers and five winters of weather. It became more and more authentic as we worked in it, and they added bits to it.† ~

Derek Jacobi

~ Wilderness is a continuous stretch of county preserved in its natural state, open to lawful hunting and fishing, big enough to absorb a two weeksí pack trip, and kept devoid of roads, artificial trails, cottages, or other works of man. ~

Aldo Leopold†

~ Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. ~

Thomas E. Lovejoy

~ Albert Einstein, who discovered that a tiny amount of mass is equal to a huge amount of energy, which explains why, as Einstein himself so eloquently put it in a famous 1939 speech to the Physics Department at Princeton, You have to exercise for a week to work off the thigh fat from a single Snickers. ~

Dave Barry

~ The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands. ~

Benjamin Franklin

~ Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on. ~

Ed Howe

~ I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting. ~

Russell Banks†

~ Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance ~

Charles de Gaulle

~ Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter. ~

Franklin D. Roosevelt

~ But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had. ~

Joe Biden

~ I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on. ~

Julie Andrews

~ They sent me the script, asking me to play the part of a general. I have never played the part of an authority figure. I've never thought of myself that way. I was uncomfortable with it, but I worked at it and knew I had a guttural voice for a general. ~

Mark Goddard

~ All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. ~

Beatrix Potter

~ For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace. ~

Bhagavad Gita

~ These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness ~

Anthony de Mello

~ He placed the soul in the body which He had fashioned. He protects the Creation which He has created. With their eyes, they see, and with their tongues, they speak; with their ears, they bring the mind to awareness. With their feet, they walk, and with their hands, they work; they wear and eat whatever is given. ~

Sri Guru Granth Sahib

~ An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work ~

Gertrude Stein

~ [T]here is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work. ~

William Gaddis

~ I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one. ~

Lucille Ball

~ I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget. ~

Aaliyah

~ I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience. ~

Augusten Burroughs

~ When you hire me, you hire a nut who is going to work 24 hours a day for you and never, ever burn his audience. ~

Howard Stern

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