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Leland Stanford

"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 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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"I've had bad jobs. Now I have a good one. I'm thankful."

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"Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs."

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"Nominally, there is one executive for every eight federal employees, a ratio that would bankrupt many private industries."

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"Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen."

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"Jobs should be offered on the basis of merit and not 'Seefarish'"

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"We have drastically reduced leakages in the Employment Guarantee scheme and ensured that money reaches those for whom it is intended. We have focused on creating durable assets that benefit the population, rather than the touts."

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

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"To some people, employment is a distraction. To all entertainers, distraction is employment."

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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."

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"A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness."
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"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."
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"Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers."
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"There is no reason why the women of the country should not greatly advance themselves."
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