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• To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition

  Henry Ford

  Ambition, Blood, Steel

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.18, 谷月社

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• I can't relate to the process of just disappearing and writing a record, all at the same time, followed by the sort of drudgery of going out on tour and trying to recreate the record, playing the same 12 songs every night.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Writing, Night

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 22, 2007.

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• The gathering of believers should be an opportunity for wonder, anticipation and imagination; not drudgery, duty or routine.

  Ross Parsley

  Opportunity, Imagination, Routine

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• Be who you want to be and not care about what others think." -Andy Sixx
  Rock n roll isn't meant to be taken so seriously, I think sometimes people forget it's meant to be fun. A rock show is meant to be a time for people to have fun and let go of the drudgeries of life.

  Andy Biersack

  Letting Go, Fun, Taken

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• Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Writing, Joy

  Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1975). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1923-1928”, Harcourt on Demand

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• I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Acting, Actors, Sheer

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.4, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

  Margaret Deland

  Teaching, Genius, Useless

  Margaret Deland (1969). “Dr. Lavendar's People”

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• I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.

  Myrtle Reed

  Work, Blindness, Inseparable

  MYRTLE REED (1910). “MASTER OF THE VINEYARD”

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• the myth of childhood happiness flourishes so wildly not because it satisfies the needs of children but because it satisfies the needs of adults. In a culture of alienated people, the belief that everyone has at least one good period in life free of care and drudgery dies hard. And obviously you can't expect it in your old age. So it must be you've already had it.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Children, People, Childhood

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX: THE CASE FOR FEMINIST REVOLUTION”

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• What I do feel the modern child lacks, when compared with the earlier generation, is concentration, and the sheer dogged grit to carry a long job through. ... Helping children to face up to a certain amount of drudgery, cheerfully and energetically, is one of the biggest problems that teachers, in these days of ubiquitous entertainment, have to face in our schools.

  Miss Read

  Education, Teacher, Jobs

  Miss Read (1977). “Chronicles of Fairacre, Comprising Village School, Village Diary, and Storm in the Village”

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• Those who refuse the long drudgery of thought, and think with the heart rather than the head, are ever the most fiercely dogmatic in tone.

  Peter Bayne

  Heart, Thinking, Long

  Peter Bayne (1858). “Essays in Biography and Criticism”, p.20

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• Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Suffering

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.17, 谷月社

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• The farmer after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.This result might well seem astounding. All this drudgery, from cockcrowing to starlight, for all these years, to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag, and removing from bad to worse. It is time to have the thing looked into, and with a sifting criticism ascertained who is the fool.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sacrifice, Years, Criticism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.301

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• Children, as well as grown-ups, in their individual, glorified, drudgery-proof homes of Labrador, the tropics, the Orient, or where you will, to which they can pass with pleasure and expedition by means of ever-improving transportation, will be able to tune in their television and radio to the moving picture lecture of, let us say, President Lowell of Harvard; the professor of Mathematics of Oxford; of the doctor of Indian antiquities of Delhi, etc.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Moving, Mean

  "4D Timelock". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1928.

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• This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a daily task that is not mere drudgery.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Daily Tasks, Mad, Wealth

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.115, A&C Black

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• Do you have a passion for what you do and do you love what you do? If you don't, then it can be drudgery, it can be hard, it can be work. But when you find something that you enjoy a lot, then you're more willing to sacrifice a lot of things in order to be successful as a teacher.

  Tubby Smith

  Teacher, Passion, Successful

  "Noah's interview with Coach Tubby Smith". Woodbury Interview, www.woodburybulletin.com. July 18, 2007.

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• Marriage is an an inherently contradictory state. It involves the fusion of two people into one thing. And it's also love, and it's a lot of work, and it's got glory in its drudgery.

  Stephen Marche

  Two, People, Fusion

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If a man, cautious,
  hides his limp,
  Somebody has to limp it! Things
  do it; the surroundings limp.
  House walls get scars,
  the car breaks down; matter, in drudgery, takes it up.

  Robert Bly

  Wall, Men, Car

  Robert Bly (1981). “The man in the black coat turns: poems”

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• I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructer [sic] to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment. If it is a drudgery to teach these little ones, then it is the duty of men to bear a part of that burthen; if it is a privilege and an honor, then we generously invite them to share that honor and privilege with us.

  Angelina Grimke

  Children, Men, Honor

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• There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain and dull perseverance. Great works of art should look as though they were made in joy. Real joy is a tremendous activity, dull drudgery is nothing to it.

  Robert Henri

  Perseverance, Art, Pain

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Men should not labor foolishly like brutes, but the brain and the body should always, or as much as possible, work and rest together, and then the work will be of such a kind that when the body is hungry the brain will be hungry also, and the same food will suffice for both; otherwise the food which repairs the waste energy of the overwrought body will oppress the sedentary brain, and the degenerate scholar will come to esteem all food vulgar, and all getting a living drudgery.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Brain, Together

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• But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a constantand imperishable moral, and to the scholar it yields a classic result.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Yield, Hands, Moral

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining, too confining. The insistence on bland impersonality and the widespread indifference to anything like the display of a unique human author in scientific exposition, have transformed the reading of most scientific papers into an act of tedious drudgery.

  David Mermin

  Reading, Science, Past

  "Boojums All the Way Through". Book by N. David Mermin, 1990.

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• Possess the spirit of independence. The Americans do, and why should not you? Possess the spirit of men, bold and enterprising, fearless and undaunted. Sue for your rights and privileges. Know the reason that you cannot attain them. Weary them with your importunities. You can but die, if you make the attempt; we shall certainly die if you do not. The Americans have practised nothing but head-work these 200 years, and we have done their drudgery. And is it not high time for us to imitate their examples, and practise head-work too, and keep what we have got, and get what we can?

  Maria W. Stewart

  Men, Rights, Years

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• Do not expect God always to give you His thrilling minutes, but learn to live in the domain of drudgery by the power of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Giving, Minutes, Domain

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.343, Discovery House

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