"He that can work is a born king of something."

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"Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"Employment is the exploitation of the employer's courage, and, the employed's fear of failure."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"One of the saddest things is the only thing a man can do for 8 hours a day day after day is work. You can't eat 8 hours a day nor drink for 8 hours a day nor make love for 8 hours."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

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"There is no competition in work. Whoever loves to labour does so as grace of life."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory."

Jim Butcher, American Author

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"There's a lot of labor involved in the birth of a new town."

Michael Richards, American Actor

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"What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union."

Mary Harris Jones, American Activist

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"If employment really cared about employees, people wouldn't have to work until retirement comes to their rescue."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"When you choose your fields of labor go where nobody else is willing to go."

Mary Lyon, American Educator

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"There are impertinent inquiries made; your rule is, to leave the inquirer uninformed on the matter; not, if you can help it, misinformed, but precisely as dark as he was!"

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"A fair day's wages for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of government."

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"Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment."

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"It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale."

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"The eye sees what it brings the power to see."

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"Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth."

"Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor."

"Employment is the exploitation of the employer's courage, and, the employed's fear of failure."

"One of the saddest things is the only thing a man can do for 8 hours a day day after day is work. You can't eat 8 hours a day nor drink for 8 hours a day nor make love for 8 hours."

"There is no competition in work. Whoever loves to labour does so as grace of life."

"Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory."

"There's a lot of labor involved in the birth of a new town."

"What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union."

"If employment really cared about employees, people wouldn't have to work until retirement comes to their rescue."

"When you choose your fields of labor go where nobody else is willing to go."

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"Silence is more eloquent than words."

"Every noble work is at first impossible."

"Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can."

"Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight."

"Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light."

"There are impertinent inquiries made; your rule is, to leave the inquirer uninformed on the matter; not, if you can help it, misinformed, but precisely as dark as he was!"

"A fair day's wages for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of government."

"Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment."

"It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale."

"The eye sees what it brings the power to see."