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"Employment is the exploitation of the employer's courage, and, the employed's fear of failure."
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"We have no need for genius - genius is dead. We have need for strong hands, for spirits who are willing to give up the ghost and put on flesh..."
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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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"Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?"
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"Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence."
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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."
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"Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital."
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"Honest labor bears a lovely face."
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"A labor strike will tear away a lot of the good things going for this league."
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"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."
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"To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it."
Friendship

"Fidelity is the sister of justice."
Family

"Subdue your passion or it will subdue you."
Passion

"Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?"
Soul

"Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings."
Death

"It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed."
Fool

"The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable."
Act

"Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain."
Fortune

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

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