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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

"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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Personal Development

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

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

"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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Personal Development

"Work without love is slavery."
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Personal Development

"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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"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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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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"There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right."
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"We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor."
Labor

"Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens."
Time

"The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit."
People

"Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected."
People

"There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish."
Action

"The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day."
Social Issues

"The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish."
Power

"No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money."
Money

"Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty."
Nation

"Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation."
Social Issues
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