#livelihood

Squash was my livelihood and as in business, I had to stay on top. ↗

— Jahangir Khan

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Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life. ↗

— Paul Ryan

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Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood. ↗

— Robin Day

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High gas prices are eating away at consumer's disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel. ↗

— Major R. Owens

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Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood. ↗

— William Baldwin

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Cultural wisdom says 'Don't quit your day job.' Yet I think these desires represent our psyche's stretch toward wholeness. And to be whole, as many religious tranditions teach, is to make manifest a unique face of God in the world. We don't want to be irresponsible, yet for every accountant who deserts his family and sails for Tahiti, ten American men have heart attacks at their desks, after hours. ↗

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

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Making money isn't hard in itself,' he complained. 'What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#vocation #work #money

I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money. ↗

— Leonard Baskin

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