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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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"Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to eat whenever."
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"When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself."
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"Employment is the exploitation of the employer's courage, and, the employed's fear of failure."
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"We have no need for genius - genius is dead. We have need for strong hands, for spirits who are willing to give up the ghost and put on flesh..."
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"Work without love is slavery."
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"When you think of the amount of turnover and profit made by most companies in this country - and especially the big chains, it's a shame that they pay their employees minimum wage and no more than that. What that really says is: 'We're paying you minimum wage, because we're not allowed to pay you any less."
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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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"Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?"
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"There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right."
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"Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder."
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"It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work."
Attitude
"If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies."
Writing
"A gentleman can live through anything."
Strength
"The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in."
Creativity
"The salvation of the world is in man's suffering."
Spiritual
"The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it."
Dream
"If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything."
Wisdom
"Pointless... like giving caviar to an elephant."
Humor
"The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies."
Wisdom
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