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"The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account."
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"The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite."

"Employment frees man from the nightmare of unemployment, while it chains him to his employer's dream."

"I made the mistake of using my earned sick time at the W. M. Keck Observatory for essential surgery. When I returned to work the management team demanded my resignation numerous times, citing my essential surgery as a reason. The W. M. Keck Observatory taught me that using earned sick time in the USA may put your future employment at significant risk."

"Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken 300,000 jobs in New York City to equal it at Citibank."

"Most employees are smarter than their employers. All employers are braver than their employees."

"An employee is sheep. His employer is the shepherd. His salary is grass."

"The first thing the secretary types is the boss."

"I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux."

"Jobs should be offered on the basis of merit and not 'Seefarish'"
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"From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and that therefore, in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor."

"Each individual member of a co-operative society works with that interest which is inseparable from the new position he enjoys. Each has an interest in the other."

"I want, in this school, that one sex shall have equal advantage with the other, and I want particularly that females shall have open to them every employment suitable to their sex."

"The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity."

"The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized."

"The only distribution of wealth which is the product of labor, which will be honest, will come through a more equal distribution of the productive capacity of men."

"I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer."

"The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years."
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