"There is evidence that young men in the big law firms, although they still work harder than most of their clients, do not glory in putting in night work and weekend hours as they once did."

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Source : David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.176, Transaction Publishers

David Riesman

#Hard Work Quotes #Night Quotes #Men Quotes

“Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.”
“Riposte of "that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical," Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?”
“Rose had the sort of eyes that manage perfectly well with things close by, but entirely blur out things far away. Because of this even the brightest stars had only appeared as silvery smudges in the darkness. In all her life, Rose had never properly seen a star. Tonight there was a sky full. Rose looked up, and it was like walking into a dark room and someone switching on the universe.”
“Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.”
“Education is critical for people to become compassionate. If you don't know the problem and you don't know the reality, how can you help?”
“There is a language beyond human language, an elemental language, one that arises from the land itself.”
“There is no magic move or secret that creates victory but lots of little items that, when added together, can make you victorious.”
“My best girlfriends are the girls I went to college with at UCLA.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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