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"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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"America's indispensable working class existed as property beyond the realm of politics, leaving white Americans free to trumpet their love of freedom and democratic values."
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"When you think of the amount of turnover and profit made by most companies in this country - and especially the big chains, it's a shame that they pay their employees minimum wage and no more than that. What that really says is: 'We're paying you minimum wage, because we're not allowed to pay you any less."
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"You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers."
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"There is no competition in work. Whoever loves to labour does so as grace of life."
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"Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence."
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"Work without love is slavery."
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"If you help load a cart you get a ride in it, as often as not. It gives him to think, how bad people are at loading carts. Men trying to walk straight ahead through a narrow gateway with a wide wooden chest. A simple rotation of the object solves a great many problems."
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"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?"
Labor
"Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music."
Music
"Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it."
Now
"The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is."
Trust
"Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion."
Trust
"The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America."
Home
"The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration."
Answers
"The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself."
Age
"There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech."
Soul
"Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice."
Perception
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