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Lillie Langtry

"The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges."

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"The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges."

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

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"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."

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

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

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

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"12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o'clock."

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"I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk for a muck-stick if he could avoid it."

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"I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work."

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"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."

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"I know I am at the end. I shall never get better, dear."
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"They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous."
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"I was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying."
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