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"What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise."
Gratitude

"It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form."
Being

"It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar."
Truth

"I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed."
Nature

"The weather is like the government, always in the wrong."
Government

"If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest."
Humility

"People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained."
Business

"We drink one another's health and spoil our own."
Health

"It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar."
Truth

"We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe."
Labor
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"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."
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"There is no competition in work. Whoever loves to labour does so as grace of life."
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Personal Development

"We always strive to be the best in the wage package."
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Personal Development

"Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?"
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"Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to eat whenever."
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"Is a PLONGEUR'S work really necessary to civilization? We have a feeling that it must be 'honest' work, because it is hard and disagreeable, and we have made a sort of fetish of manual work. We see a man cutting down a tree, and we make sure that he is filling a social need, just because he uses his muscles; it does not occur to us that he may only be cutting down a beautiful tree to make room for a hideous statue. I believe it is the same with a PLONGEUR. He earns his bread in the sweat of his brow, but it does not follow that he is doing anything useful; he may be only supplying a luxury which, very often, is no luxury at all."
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"When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself."
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"When you think of the amount of turnover and profit made by most companies in this country - and especially the big chains, it's a shame that they pay their employees minimum wage and no more than that. What that really says is: 'We're paying you minimum wage, because we're not allowed to pay you any less."
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"Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence."
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"Man cannot live by incompetence alone."
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Personal Development
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