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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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"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."
"What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union."
"Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s."
"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."
"Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence."
"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."
"When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself."
"The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us."
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"The question of commonsense is always 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage."
"Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side."
"Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not."
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