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"No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him there is always work And tools to work withal for those who will And blessed are the horny hands of toil!"
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"You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that."
"If you help load a cart you get a ride in it, as often as not. It gives him to think, how bad people are at loading carts. Men trying to walk straight ahead through a narrow gateway with a wide wooden chest. A simple rotation of the object solves a great many problems."
"When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself."
"To say that "the worker has an interest in the rapid growth of capital", means only this: that the more speedily the worker augments the wealth of the capitalist, the larger will be the crumbs which fall to him, the greater will be the number of workers than can be called into existence, the more can the mass of slaves dependent upon capital be increased."
"The full potential of labor can be utilized only if there is mobility in labor."
"If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health."
"He was a regulator first-class, which was another term for metalworker unskilled."
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"As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend."
"The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience."
"Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side."
"Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls."
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