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"Anti-sabbatical: A job taken with the sole intention of staying only for a limited period of time (often one year). The intention is usually to raise enough funds to partake in another, more personally meaningful activity such as watercolor sketching in Crete or designing computer knit sweaters in Hong Kong. Employers are rarely informed of intentions."
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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."
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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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"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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"A promotion is an illusionary solution out of an indebted employee's pit of debt."
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"Fate is for losers."
Fate
"Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room."
Politics
"You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself."
Life
"Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler."
Life
"I think the killers get far too much attention."
Attention
"You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life."
Life
"I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'"
Humor
"Technology favors horrible people."
Technology
"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."
People
"Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it."
Life
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