"Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work."

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"Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media."

Chuck Klosterman, American Critic

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"After an eight-hour day workers require three overtime hours to produce two regular hours of results."

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"Our boss has been so successful he deserves to retire so that he can spend more time . . . with his servants."

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"A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on."

Marcel Proust, French Author

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"At home I am a man, at work I am a machine."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"The crew knew because they had heard from other people, and when I showed up on the set the next day, they were all looking at me kind of weird. I told them that Bill always taught me that whenever something bad like that happens, the best thing to do is work."

Brandon Cruz, American Actor

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"You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way."

Ahmad Jamal, American Musician

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"The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion."

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"We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future."

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"America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future."

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"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

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"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."

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"One and God make a majority."

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"I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave."

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