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"The world system is employment."

"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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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

"To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance."

"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do."

"We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends."

"Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless."

"Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us."

"Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from."

"Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident."

"Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play."
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