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Ben Shahn

"I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossible to say, you know."

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"I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossible to say, you know."

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Amber Hurdle

"If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union."

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"The vicious circle of life is employment."

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"Work indeed has many more benefits than money."

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"Do the good work, with the resources you have."

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"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, 'We did this ourselves.'"

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Amber Hurdle

"Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work."

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Amber Hurdle

"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

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"Be a worthy worker and work will come."

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Amber Hurdle

"The meaning of life is not celebrating your birth, it is celebrating your work."

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"We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity."

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"When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today."
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"I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know."
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"I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition at the College Art Association. The first exhibition I picked the photographs and so on and we had an exhibition in New York."
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"So, I was offered this job to come down there but first it was suggested that I take a trip around the country in the areas in which we worked to see what it's all about, and I tell you that was a revelation to me."
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"In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture."
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"I still love to look at photographs but I couldn't do it myself anymore."
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"I felt very strongly the whole social impact of that depression, you know, and I felt very strongly about the efforts that this Resettlement Administration was trying to accomplish; resettling people, helping them, and so on."
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"Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know."
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"The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time."
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