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"No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating."
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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."

"When employees are motivated and love what they do you will see higher productivity, less turnover, healthier communication, increased loyalty, and a happier environment."

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

"The office' is a cemetery of dreams."

"Speaking about work isn't working."

"I didn't want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank."

"Extreme night shift work in high altitude astronomy is easily avoidable by using a split night shift where the first night shift starts before sunset and finishes at midnight and the second night shift starts with a new fresh person working through to after sunrise."

"The summit of Mauna Kea was definitely a place where it was better to be a hard to replace skilled engineer than an easy to replace technician. It was my experience that once you had developed Mauna Kea Sickness that the management team would blatantly harass you out of your job using nasty inhumane human resources techniques."

"Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him."
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"The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice."

"American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe."

"America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black."

"The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are."

"The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history."

"The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight."

"The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead."

"No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating."
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