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Maya Lin

"All my work is much more peaceful than I am."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"We are so used to working that not working is the new hard work."

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Amber Hurdle

"I didn't want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank."

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Amber Hurdle

"Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him."

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Amber Hurdle

"Wherever you work, work hard and educate yourself continuously. You must never forget social welfare, ethics and honesty. However, there is no guarantee for your career progression. Therefore, don't expect that only the best people will be promoted."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"A salary is a tax employers pay, every four weeks, for putting an employee's dream on hold."

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Amber Hurdle

"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."

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Amber Hurdle

"Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy."

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Amber Hurdle

"Police officers are poorly paid for a very stressful job that has them in very high powered radio frequency (RF) fields and in a daily environment that may result in them being assaulted, maimed or killed."

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Maya Lin
"I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts."

School

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Maya Lin
"Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field."

Thinking

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Maya Lin
"It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it."

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Maya Lin
"When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family."

Family

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Maya Lin
"I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination."

Architecture

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Maya Lin
"Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles."

Love

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Maya Lin
"Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture."

Architecture

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Maya Lin
"Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication."

Parents

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Maya Lin
"The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning."

Life

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Maya Lin
"The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost."

War

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