Ex.3.36. Discuss the following quotations about Business, Work and Leisure with your groupmates. Say which of them – if any - reflect your point of view.

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1) Go to your business, I say, pleasure, whlist I go to my pleasure, business (WilliamWycherley, The Country Wife)

2) Breakages, Limited, the biggest industrial corporation in the country (George Bernard Shaw, The Apple Cart)

3) It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours (Harry S. Truman, in Observer 13 April 1958)

4) The last stage of fitting the product to the market is fitting the market to the product (Clive James, in Observer 16 October 1989)

5) My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry (Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent)

6) It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do (Jerome K. Jerome, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow)

7) If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means (Alan Bennett, A Question of Attribution)

8) Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another (Stephen Leacock, The Boy I Left Behind Me)

9) A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do his job when he does feel like it (James Agate, diary 19 July 1945)

10) Why do men delight in work? Fundamentally, I suppose, because there is a sense of relief and pleasure in getting something done – a kind of satisfaction not unlike that which a hen enjoys on laying an egg (H.L.Mencken, Minority Report)

11) I understand. You work very hard two days a week and you need a five-day weekend. That's normal (Neil Simon, Come Blow Your Horn)

12) I saw newspapermen at work so I became a correspondent. I saw advertising men at work so I became an advertising man; publicity people at work, I went for publicity. I saw painters at work, so I bought some canvases and covered them with oil. I saw musical shows I liked and I became a lyric writer (Howard Dietz, Dancing in the Dark)

13) How to be an effective secretary is to develop the kind of lonely self-abnegating sacrificial instincts usually possessed only by the early saints on their way to martyrdom (Jill Tweedie, It's Only Me)

14) It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure why take the chance? (Ronald Reagan, interview, in Guardian 31 March 1987)