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

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

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

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

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

"A promotion is an illusionary solution out of an indebted employee's pit of debt."
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"In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer's yard."

"Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours."

"When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time."

"The most upsetting thing about Society's attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman."

"You cannot force someone to believe something they do not believe, you can only manage to force them to speak or act as if they do."

"Because of self-doubt, the fear of failure, or laziness, most people usually bite off way less than they can chew."
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