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"If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us."
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"Employment is the exploitation of the employer's courage, and, the employed's fear of failure."

"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."

"What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union."

"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."

"Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s."

"Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow."

"Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems."
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"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed."
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