"I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words."

Work, Giving, Talk, Words

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"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."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

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

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"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."

Alain de Botton, English Writer

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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

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"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."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"To some women, a job plays the role of a man. To most women, a man plays the role of a job."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"A specialist's mind is a slave to his specialization."

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"When I worked at the W. M. Keck Observatory on the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, we would routinely be engulfed in cold clouds of helium and nitrogen gas as we discharged it into the video camera systems daily. The management team never warned us that we were in a hazardous oxygen deprived environment during this activity that was known for its ability to adversely affect physical and mental health, and possibly bring on death by asphyxiation."

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"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"To some women, a job plays the role of a man. To most women, a man plays the role of a job."

"A specialist's mind is a slave to his specialization."

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"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."

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"Man can no longer live for himself alone. We must realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe."

"Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion."