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"A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation."
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"The world system is employment."

"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."
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"Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities."

"In the Second World War he took no public part, having escaped to a neutral country just before its outbreak. In private conversation he was wont to say that homicidal lunatics were well employed in killing each other, but that sensible men would keep out of their way while they were doing it. Fortunately this outlook, which is reminiscent of Bentham, has become rare in this age, which recognizes that heroism has a value independent of its utility. The Last Survivor of a Dead Epoch."

"Mathematics possesses not only truth but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere like that of a sculpture."

"Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept."

"We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought."
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