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Mahalia Jackson

"You're blessed if you have the strength to work."

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"You're blessed if you have the strength to work."

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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."

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

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"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."

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Amber Hurdle

"A salary is a tax employers pay, every four weeks, for putting an employee's dream on hold."

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"Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy."

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"A specialist's mind is a slave to his specialization."

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"12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o'clock."

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"I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk for a muck-stick if he could avoid it."

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"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."

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"A promotion is an illusionary solution out of an indebted employee's pit of debt."

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