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Doug Coupland

"And once again, work is providing us with a comforting sense of normalcy-living and working inside of coding's predictably segmented time/space. Simply grinding away at something makes life feel stable, even though the external particulars of life (like our pay checks, our office, and so forth) are, at best, random."

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"And once again, work is providing us with a comforting sense of normalcy-living and working inside of coding's predictably segmented time/space. Simply grinding away at something makes life feel stable, even though the external particulars of life (like our pay checks, our office, and so forth) are, at best, random."

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Donna Grant

"There is no competition in work. Whoever loves to labour does so as grace of life."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself."

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Donna Grant

"Employment is the exploitation of the employer's courage, and, the employed's fear of failure."

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Donna Grant

"We have no need for genius - genius is dead. We have need for strong hands, for spirits who are willing to give up the ghost and put on flesh..."

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Donna Grant

"Work without love is slavery."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right."

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Doug Coupland
"The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member."

Needs

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Doug Coupland
"People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own."

Family

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Doug Coupland
"A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it."

Connection

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Doug Coupland
"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."

Cultural

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Doug Coupland
"On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen."

Time

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Doug Coupland
"The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all."

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Doug Coupland
"Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs."

People

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Doug Coupland
"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."

Want

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Doug Coupland
"Where does personality end and brain damage begin?"

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Doug Coupland
"Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem."

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