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"Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them."
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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."
"We are so used to working that not working is the new hard work."
"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."
"A salary is a tax employers pay, every four weeks, for putting an employee's dream on hold."
"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."
"Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy."
"To some women, a job plays the role of a man. To most women, a man plays the role of a job."
"A specialist's mind is a slave to his specialization."
"When I worked at the W. M. Keck Observatory on the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, we would routinely be engulfed in cold clouds of helium and nitrogen gas as we discharged it into the video camera systems daily. The management team never warned us that we were in a hazardous oxygen deprived environment during this activity that was known for its ability to adversely affect physical and mental health, and possibly bring on death by asphyxiation."
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"The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power."
"In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes."
"The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us."
"Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem."
"Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline."
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