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Joseph Conrad

"I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know."

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"I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know."

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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

"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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Amber Hurdle

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

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Joseph Conrad
"All idealisation makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity - it is to destroy it."

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Joseph Conrad
"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much."

History

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Joseph Conrad
"Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets."

Regret

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Joseph Conrad
"I let him run on, this papier-mâché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried, I could poke my forefinger through him and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe."

Philosophy

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Joseph Conrad
"Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality."

Reality

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Joseph Conrad
"To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence."

Being

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Joseph Conrad
"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."

Man

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Joseph Conrad
"Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end."

Illusion

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Joseph Conrad
"He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself."

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Joseph Conrad
"Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys."

Gossip

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