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• I know what happiness is, for I have done good work.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Happiness, Done, Knows

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• In our good works nothing is our own.

  John Calvin

  Stewardship

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Ezekiel 1- 12 (Annotated Edition)”, p.331, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I think he likes it. He fits in with our ethos. He's a good worker and is an excellent pro. Thank goodness he likes his training or else he wouldn't settle here.

  Iain Dowie

  Thinking, Ethos, Training

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• Until now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada. Unless we can stop it, the harm done by Canada in December 2009 will outweigh a century of good works.

  George Monbiot

  Real, Agreement, Environmental

  "Canada's image lies in tatters. It is now to climate what Japan is to whaling". www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2009.

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• It's time that we move from good words to good works, from sound bites to sound solutions.

  Hillary Clinton

  Moving, Sound, Politics

  "Today on the Presidential Campaign Trail". www.foxnews.com. February 20, 2008.

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• To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Doubt, Great Work

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• Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Memorial, Headstone, Gravestone

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)”, p.4626, e-artnow

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• The wise leader settles for good work and then lets others have the floor.

  Laozi

  Leadership, Wise, Motivation

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• A bad short story or novel or poem leaves one comparatively calm because it does not exist, unless it gets a fake prestige throughbeing mistaken for good work. It is essentially negative, it is something that has not come through. But over bad criticism one has a sense of real calamity.

  Rebecca West

  Real, Fake, Criticism

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.161, Open Road Media

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• Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.

  Francesca Annis

  Fame, Exposure

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• I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series of opinions, and if it's a good work of art, these opinions become so deeply embedded in complexity and richness that I won't even be bothered by the opinions. I'll make my own mind up.'

  Tony Kushner

  Art, Thinking, Historical

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• A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.

  John of the Cross

  Love, Christian, Spiritual

  Saint John of the Cross (1957). “The dark night of the soul”

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• Good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.

  James Howell

  Wine, Men, Blood

  James Howell (1726). “Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ: Familiar Letters Domestick and Foreign, Divided Into Four Books; Partly Historical, Political, Philosophical. Upon Emergent Occasions”, p.366

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• But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It's more work and more good work. That's it. People will have their opinion regardless.

  Shia LaBeouf

  People, Acting, Adults

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• It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes

  David Cassidy

  Stuff, Fame, Ifs

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• What's the level of compromise for making that kind of money? How far do I have to sell my soul? What's the price of that? And I don't know if I want to make those kind of compromises any more. I think I'm a different person. I think I've matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it's not about the celebrity status that you receive because you're doing the next hot movie. It's about doing good work.

  Emilio Estevez

  Thinking, Soul, Hot

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

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• Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Programming, Very Good, Software

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.23, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• We must each prepare ourselves for every good work that might come to us and then accept the principle that revelation, not aspiration, is the basis for our respective callings.

  Monte J. Brough

  Principles, Calling, Might

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• I think that they had afforded me many opportunities to do good work there, and I think I did. It was a wonderful four years. I really worked with some great people, terrific producers, terrific editors

  Connie Chung

  Opportunity, Thinking, Years

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• Perhaps you should say there should be mandatory retirement even of members of the court, members of the federal judiciary. I'm sure there can be questions about whether one does as good work when you get into your - you know, I'm 67.

  William Rehnquist

  Retirement, Doe, Should

  Booknotes television interview, July 5, 1992.

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• If the devil were to offer me a resurgence of what is commonly called virility, I'd decline. ''Just keep my liver and lungs in good working order,'' I'd reply, ''so I can go on drinking and smoking!''

  Luis Bunuel

  Drinking, Order, Smoking

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• I just wanna build momentum again. Keeping yourself in work is one thing, keeping yourself in good work's another. But if it doesn't work out, so be it. As the Taoists say, Learn to accept that which you cannot change.

  Ian Hart

  Work Out, Momentum, Accepting

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

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• It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.

  Cyril Connolly

  Mistake, Literature, Matter

  Cyril Connolly (2008). “Enemies of Promise”, p.105, University of Chicago Press

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• Morality is a neat cover for foul venom, but it does not alter the fact that the heart is vile, and the man himself is under damnation. Men will be damned with good works as well as without them, if they make them their confidence (rather than Jesus Christ).

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Heart, Men

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• Belief, humble belief, is the foundation of all righteousness and the beginning of spiritual progression. It goes before good works, opens the door to an eternal store of heavenly truth, and charts the course to eternal life. . . . Belief is the brilliant beacon that marks the course through the waves and woes of the world to that celestial harbor where rest and safety are found.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Life, Spiritual, Humble

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