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"The monarchy is a labor intensive industry."
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"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."

"If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health."

"Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence."

"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."

"Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind."

"When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself."

"Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?"

"So May 4th in the labor movement has always been an important date."
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"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery."

"We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution."

"I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep."

"If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar."

"Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No."
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