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George Carlin

"When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent."

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"When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent."

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"The job description, like most, used complicated words that made job-hopefuls hesitant to apply because it may be out of their range of capability."

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"We are so used to working that not working is the new hard work."

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"And yet, troublingly, there is one difference between 'labour' and other elements [raw materials, machinery] which conventional economics does not have a means to represent, or give weight to, but which is nevertheless unavoidably present in the world: the fact that labour feels pain."

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"A salary is a tax employers pay, every four weeks, for putting an employee's dream on hold."

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"Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy."

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"A specialist's mind is a slave to his specialization."

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"12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o'clock."

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"I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk for a muck-stick if he could avoid it."

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"I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work."

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"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."

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