"We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not."

Ellen Richards, American Environmental Chemist

Work, May, Mission

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"We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not."

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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."

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"The world system is employment."

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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

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"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

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"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."

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