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    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
    tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
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    Honoré de Balzac
    “All happiness depends on courage and work.”
    ― Honoré de Balzac
    tags: courage, happiness, work
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    Albert Einstein
    “Out of clutter, find simplicity.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: clutter, difficulty, discord, harmony, oppurtunity, work
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
    tags: fear, freedom, meaning-of-life, psychology, purpose-of-life, work
    1239 likes

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    William James
    “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ”
    ― William James
    tags: action, happiness, motivational, work
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    Gautama Buddha
    “Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it”
    ― Buddha
    tags: mission, purpose, work
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
    What's a sundial in the shade?”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: talent, wisdom, work
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    Mother Teresa
    “Work without love is slavery.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: faith, love, work
    661 likes

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    Aristotle
    “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: work
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    George Carlin
    “The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: butterflies, caterpillars, humor, injustice, work
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    Dave Barry
    “If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.”
    ― Dave Barry
    tags: business, humor, meetings, work
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