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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."
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"I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third."

"One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full."

"When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality."

"If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic."

"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion."

"Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance."
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