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"We are always in these days endeavoring to separate intellect and manual labor; we want one man to be always thinking, and another to be always working, and we call one a gentleman, and the other an operative; whereas the workman ought often to be thinking, and the thinker often to be working, and both should be gentlemen in the best sense."
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"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."
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"Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor."
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"Employment is the exploitation of the employer's courage, and, the employed's fear of failure."
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"One of the saddest things is the only thing a man can do for 8 hours a day day after day is work. You can't eat 8 hours a day nor drink for 8 hours a day nor make love for 8 hours."
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"There is no competition in work. Whoever loves to labour does so as grace of life."
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"Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory."
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"There's a lot of labor involved in the birth of a new town."
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"What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union."
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"If employment really cared about employees, people wouldn't have to work until retirement comes to their rescue."
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"When you choose your fields of labor go where nobody else is willing to go."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
Man
"Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make."
Help
"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."
Experience
"Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light."
Beauty
"Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor."
Labor
"The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him."
Man
"All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy."
Emotional
"It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled."
Life
"To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education."
Education
"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."
Architecture
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