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"We don't want a third party who may or may not have our best interests in mind or our crew members' best interests in mind because they may be serving a union of one of our competitors. They are trying to equalize us and take away our competitive advantage."
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"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."

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

"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."

"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."

"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?"
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"Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate."

"Be it $15 million here and $11 million there, it takes hundreds of millions to be successful in this business."

"People were desperately trying to fill their seats for the summer. And so prices are really low right now. And so they are kept from raising prices to make up for that difference."

"Of course, we should all be aware of what we're packing in our carry-on luggage - anything that might be considered dangerous could be confiscated at a security checkpoint."

"We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency side of it, but we've added some extras that people aren't used to finding on Southwest."

"I actually thrive on all the challenges, and I don't feel like ADD has impaired my ability."
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