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• One might better try to sail the Atlantic in a paper boat, than try to get to heaven on good works.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heaven, Trying, Paper

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• Immortality is a by-product of good work. Masterpieces are not for artists, they're for critics. Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together. My message to the world is 'Let's swing, sing, shout, make noise! Let's not mimic death before our time comes! Let's be wet and noisy!'

  Mel Brooks

  Artist, Swings, Together

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We believe in encouraging the talented, but we believe that while survival of the fittest may be a good working description of the process of evolution, a government of humans should elevate itself to a higher order.

  Mario Cuomo

  Believe, Order, Government

  1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 16 July 1984, San Francisco, CA

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• For me, temperance is essential to good work.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Essentials, Moderation, Temperance

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• A good work is a partnership between you and nature... Nature will help you every step of the way.

  Barbara Sher

  Nature, Way, Steps

  Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.119, Dell

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• If you've as many films as I have, and missed as many opportunities as I have to do good work and been pissed off about it, you say, "Well, now you've got to start getting it right." If you get a chance, you really want to cook. And the tragedy is, when you finally feel that way about yourself, about your work, nobody wants to give you a chance. And that happens to a lot of actors. But I'm feeling very wanted these days, so there must be something in the air.

  Burt Reynolds

  Opportunity, Air, Giving

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Comforting Wealth comes by good work, by wisdom it increases, cleverness stabilizes it and by patience it is preserved.

  Mahesh Babu

  Comforting, Wealth, Increase

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• The name of our proper connection to the earth is 'good work,' for good work involves much giving of honor. It honors the source of its materials; it honors the place where it is done; it honors the art by which it is done; it honors the thing that it makes and the user of the made thing.

  Wendell Berry

  Art, Work, Names

  Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon

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• There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.

  Wendell Berry

  Work, Done, Work To Be Done

  Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon

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• Every good work has to face opposition, and the reaction of the opposition offered always helps the work.

  Meher Baba

  Faces, Helping, Reactions

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• Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. And if you feel the strain, you may be doing some good work.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Work, Together, May

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• Though there is antipathy in the human heart to the gospel of Christ, yet when Christians make their good work shine, all admire them. It is when great disparity exists between profession and practice that we secure the scorn of mankind.

  David Livingstone

  Christian, Heart, Practice

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• I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Believe, Artist, Ideas

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• Of the time that is allotted to man here on the earth there is none to lose or waste. After suitable rest and relaxation there is not a day, hour or minute that we should spend in idleness, but every minute of every day of our lives we should strive to improve our minds and to increase the faith of the holy Gospel, in charity, patience, and good works, that we may grow in the knowledge of the truth as it is spoken and prophesied of and written about.

  Brigham Young

  Men, Mind, Relaxation

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• No one is saved by good works (Ephesians 2:8-9), but every Christian has been saved for good works (verse 10).

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Inspire, Ifs

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• So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?

  Jackie Cooper

  Want, Rich

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• On any Tuesday morning, if asked, a good working scientist will tell you with some self-satisfaction that the affairs of his field are nicely in order, that things are finally looking clear and making sense, and all is well. But come back again on another Tuesday, and the roof may have just fallen in on his life's work.

  Lewis Thomas

  Morning, Self, Order

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• I am not the least bit religious, but at least I stick up for the good work of religion and the cascade of benefits that come from religion.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Religious, Benefits, Sticks

  "Police officers under attack: Treatment of cops in America". "The Five" with Greg Gutfeld, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Juan Williams, Eric Bolling and Dana Perino, www.foxnews.com. May 14, 2015.

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• The life of the nation is shot through with a certain falseness and hypocrisy, which are all the more tragic because they are so often subconscious rather than deliberate ... The soul of the people is putrescent, and until that becomes regenerate and clean, no good work can be done.

  Frantz Fanon

  People, Hypocrisy, Soul

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• What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Art, Honor, Tradition

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt Talks The Lookout". www.movieweb.com. March 26, 2007.

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• There seems to be a notion in Hollywood that if you want to make money, you have to sacrifice doing good work with integrity. And I think that's bullshit. I think that's an excuse, and it's what people say who are scared that they can't do good work.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Integrity, Sacrifice, Thinking

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 28, 2007.

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• When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it lie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Lying, Two, Needs

  "When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted" l. 1 (1892)

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• There is not a good work which the hand of man has ever undertaken, which his heart has ever conceived, which does not require a good education for its helper.

  Horace Mann

  Heart, Men, Hands

  Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1841). “Common School Journal”

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• I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was twelve or thirteen. He said, "You know, today I welded a perfect seam and I signed my name to it." And I said, "But, Daddy, no one's going to see it!" And he said, "Yeah, but I know it's there." So when I was working in kitchens, I did good work.

  Toni Morrison

  Father, Names, Daddy

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Dec 12, 2011

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