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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."

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

"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."

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

"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."

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

"To some women, a job plays the role of a man. To most women, a man plays the role of a job."

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

"Employee Engagement"Employee Engagement has become a very hot topic in recent years. The escalating statistics for disengagement are alarming. In 2015, the Gallup Polls' "The State of the American Workforce survey found that only 32.5 percent of the U.S. Workforce is engaged and committed where they work, and 54 percent say they would consider leaving their companies if they could receive a 20 percent raise elsewhere. Disengagement not only lowers performance, morale, and productivity, but it's costing employers billions of dollars a year. It's a growing problem, which has many companies baffled."

"12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o'clock."
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"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."


"Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe."


"A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast."


"As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous."


"People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses."


"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose."
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