"Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind."

Labor, Work, Cure, Effort, Humanity

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"Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind."

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"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..."

Henry Miller, American Author

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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."

Christina Engela, South African Author

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"Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory."

Jim Butcher, American Author

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"Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital."

Angela Davis, American Activist

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"Honest labor bears a lovely face."

Thomas Dekker, English Dramatist

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"A labor strike will tear away a lot of the good things going for this league."

Ron Jaworski, American Athlete

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"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it."

Charles Guggenheim, American Director

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"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."

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"Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation."

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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

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"Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects."

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"Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all."

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"The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest."

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"He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years."

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"Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is."

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"I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil."

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"Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong."

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