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"Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor."
"Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory."
"Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to eat whenever."
"Employment is the exploitation of the employer's courage, and, the employed's fear of failure."
"Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence."
"There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements."
"Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth."
"Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind."
"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."
"Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital."
Explore more quotes by Mary Lyon
"There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it."
"Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought."
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