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• There is Throats to be cut, and Works to be done.

  William Shakespeare

  Cutting, Done, Throat

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.1670

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• When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.128, Harvard University Press

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• Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner. Heaven seems to understand such economy.

  Edith Stein

  Waiting, Heaven, Energy

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• I want to help communities put welfare recipients to work right now, without delay, repairing schools, making their neighborhoods clean and safe, making them shine again. There's lots of work to be done out there. Our cities can find ways to put people to work and bring dignity and strength back to these families.

  William J. Clinton

  School, Cities, People

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1413, Best Books on

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• Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?

  Annie Lennox

  Empowerment, Feminism, Done

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• Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done.

  Wole Soyinka

  People, Feelings, Done

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• Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Inspirational Life, Justice, Liberty

  "271 - Address at the Free University of Berlin". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. June 26, 1963.

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• We really have no choice but to pray and encourage a return to an America steeped in Judeo-Christian values. It is either that or taking our chances in a society with no values at all. For all Americans the former carries certain risks, but the latter spells certain doom. For now, we should not be deflected by theological debate from the life-saving tasks awaiting us. There is work to be done. We must ensure that America will continue to be part of God's plan for the world.

  Daniel Lapin

  Christian, America, Choices

  Rabbi Daniel Lapin (2012). “America's Real War”, p.526, Multnomah

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• There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.

  John Ruskin

  Work, Men, Gentleman

  John Ruskin (1866). “The crown of wild olive”, p.24

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• There is still work to be done, but that remains a crucial lesson, you cannot bring peace and security to people just by signing an agreement. In fact, most peace agreements don't last.

  Hillary Clinton

  Peace, Agreement, People

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• You walk into Air Force One. It's like a surreal experience, in a certain way, but you have to get over it, because there's so much work to be done, whether it's jobs or other nations that truly hate us. You have to get over it.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Hate, Air

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.

  Mark Twain

  Hard Work, Organization, Done

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.1034, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential.

  Ellen Goodman

  New Year, Drawing, Years

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• I feel mushy these days when I think about art and artists and the work that lies ahead for us. There's good work to be done and there's joy to be found in it, I think.

  Ava DuVernay

  Art, Lying, Thinking

  Source: deadline.com

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• But to demand that a work be “relatable” expresses a different expectation: that the work itself be somehow accommodating to, or reflective of, the experience of the reader or viewer. The reader or viewer remains passive in the face of the book or movie or play: she expects the work to be done for her. If the concept of identification suggested that an individual experiences a work as a mirror in which he might recognize himself, the notion of relatability implies that the work in question serves like a selfie: a flattering confirmation of an individual's solipsism.

  Rebecca Mead

  Book, Play, Mirrors

  "The Scourge of 'Relatability'". www.newyorker.com. August 1, 2014.

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• I know playwrights who like to kid themselves into saying that their characters are so well formed that they just take over. They determine the structure of the play. By which is meant, I suspect, only that the unconscious mind has done its work so thoroughly that the play just has to be filtered through the conscious mind. But there's work to be done - and discovery to be made.

  Edward Albee

  Character, Kids, Discovery

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.63, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Advice on evangelism needs to be tailored to individual situations. For instance, I know someone who needs to be encouraged to speak less and work more. That would be a better testimony for him because he has certainly let his work colleagues know about Jesus. It's not that I don't want him to witness about Jesus, but I have a lot of sympathy for his employer. He is paying for work to be done.

  Mark Dever

  Jesus, Speak Less, Advice

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• If there's some work to be done that seems like it will be fun, I'll do it. I don't take anything seriously at all.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Fun, Done, Seems

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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, Good Work

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

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• The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into the natural world for some glimmer of understanding? Why retreat into anxious introspection when, as Emerson might have said, there is a vast world outside to explore? Why spend so much time working on oneself when there is so much real work to be done?

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Real, Understanding, Might

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2009). “Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America”, p.76, Macmillan

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• There is no question, therefore, that the work to be done in familiarising the general public with the nature of the Mysteries is of paramount importance at this time. These Mysteries will be restored to outer expression through the medium of the Church and the Masonic Fraternity ... When the Great One comes with His disciples and initiates we shall have ... the restoration of the Mysteries and their exoteric presentation as a consequence of the first initiation.

  Alice Bailey

  Expression, Church, Restoration

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• For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of our economy calls for action: bold and swift. And we will act not only to create new jobs but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its costs.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Technology, Bridges

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• Tea? At the beach? No time for luxuries, Holly. There is important work to be done.” He winked at Butler. “Are you sure you’re at the library? I thought I heard water.” Artemis smiled, enjoying the exchange. “Water? Surely not. The only thing flowing here is information.” “Are you grinning, Artemis? For some reason I get the feeling that you’re wearing that smug smile of yours.

  Eoin Colfer

  Beach, Luxury, Water

  Eoin Colfer (2008). “Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony”, Miramax

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• Fault lines run along color lines in American public life, and the women’s movement is no exception. Over the years, feminism has become more inclusive but there is still hard work to be done to include LGBT women and communities of color.

  Christine Pelosi

  Running, Hard Work, Color

  "Feminists Must Advance Immigrants’ Rights as Women’s Rights" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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• Just because the road ahead is long, is no reason to slow down. Just because there is much work to be done, is no reason to get discouraged. It is a reason to get started, to grow, to find new ways, to reach within yourself and discover strength, commitment, and determination. The road ahead is long and difficult, but it’s filled with opportunity. Start what needs starting. Finish what needs finishing. Get on the road. Stay on the road. Don’t give up.

  Ralph Marston

  Determination, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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