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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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"Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor."
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"There is no competition in work. Whoever loves to labour does so as grace of life."
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"Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory."
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"There's a lot of labor involved in the birth of a new town."
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"What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union."
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"If employment really cared about employees, people wouldn't have to work until retirement comes to their rescue."
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"Does the work get easier once you know what you are doing?''Your lungs grow thick with stone dust and your eyes bleary from the sun and fragments thrown up by the chisel. You pour your lifeblood out into works of stone for Romans who will take your money in taxes to feed soldiers who will nail your people to crosses for wanting to be free. Your back breaks, your bones creak, your wife screeches at you, and your children torment you with open begging mouths, like greedy baby birds in the nest. You go to bed every night so tired and beaten that you pray to the Lord to send the angel of death to take you in your sleep so you don't have to face another morning. It also has its downside."
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"We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe."
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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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"Work without love is slavery."
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"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin."
Truth
"Take your place, then. Look at what happened from every side and consider all the other ways it could have gone. Consider, even, an Africa unconquered altogether. Imagine those first Portuguese adventurers approaching the shore, spying on the jungle's edge through their fitted brass lenses. Imagine that by some miracle of dread or reverence they lowered their spyglasses, turned, set their riggings, sailed on. Imagine all who came after doing the same. What would that Africa be now? All I can think of is the other okapi, the one they used to believe in. A unicorn that could look you in the eye."
Imagination
"Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier."
Truth
"Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan before it finally begins to work. It's discouraging, but necessary to write those pages. I try to consider them pages -100 to zero of the novel."
Writing
"The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away."
Friendship
"Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off."
Society
"That would be Axelroot all over, to turn up with an extra wife or two claiming that's how they do it here. Maybe he's been in Africa so long he's forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it's called Monotony."
Humor
"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope."
Life
"It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time."
Time
"He lifts her breasts, which fit perfectly into his hands, though he knows this is no promise that he gets to keep them. A million things you can't have will fit in a human hand."
Love
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