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"America's indispensable working class existed as property beyond the realm of politics, leaving white Americans free to trumpet their love of freedom and democratic values."
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"When you think of the amount of turnover and profit made by most companies in this country - and especially the big chains, it's a shame that they pay their employees minimum wage and no more than that. What that really says is: 'We're paying you minimum wage, because we're not allowed to pay you any less."
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"By buying the power of the workman, the capitalist has, therefore, acquired the right to use of make that labouring power during the whole day or week."
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"We always strive to be the best in the wage package."
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"You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that."
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"The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us."
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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."
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"The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers."
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"And once again, work is providing us with a comforting sense of normalcy-living and working inside of coding's predictably segmented time/space. Simply grinding away at something makes life feel stable, even though the external particulars of life (like our pay checks, our office, and so forth) are, at best, random."
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"There is no competition in work. Whoever loves to labour does so as grace of life."
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"Knowledge without education is but armed injustice."
Education

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."
Adversity

"Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone."
Wisdom

"What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye."
Impression

"Fidelity is the sister of justice."
Family

"This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist."
Friendship

"I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well."
Time

"Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not."
Money

"Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least."
Patience

"A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong."
Purpose
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