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"But we should also not forget the difference between what first motivated me and the work that is the result."
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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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"When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else."

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"But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland."

"But we should also not forget the difference between what first motivated me and the work that is the result."
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