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"There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right."
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"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."
"What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union."
"If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health."
"Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence."
"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."
"Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind."
"When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself."
"The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us."
"Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?"
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"Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children."
"Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries."
"No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal."
"Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger."
"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made."
"You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any."
"Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes."
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