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We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.

- Theodore Zeldin
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Theodore Zeldin
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We think of speaking as something we do naturally, without any effort. But like playing music, it requires attention and knowledge and practice.

However fascinating you may think you are, there is a limit to what you can know about yourself.

I think one of the most important changes of our time has been our attitude to fear. Every civilisation defends itself by keeping fears out and saying 'we protect you from fear'. But it also produces new fears and throughout history people have changed the kind of fears which have worried them.

I think it's impossible to predict the future but it is possible to look at the past and see how one can do differently from what one's ancestors have done and learn from their mistakes, and one can see how even though there are enormous forces which stop one doing what one wants to, there are little holes in which the individual can do something.

You cannot measure the minute nuance that makes the difference between being happy and unhappy at work.

People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them.

What's missing from the world is a sense of direction.

The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.

I don't think there is anything a man can do that a woman cannot do.

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We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.

We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.

We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.

We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.

We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.

We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.

We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.

We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.

We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.

We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.

We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.

We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.

We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.

We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.

We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.