"Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work."

Carlyle, Thomas · Labor · 1 fans >>
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"We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it."

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"No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind."

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"The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures."

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"A man's best friends are his ten fingers."

Collyer, Robert · Labor · 0 fans >>
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"Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working."

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"Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born."

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"He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor."

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"I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management."

Giraudoux, Jean · Labor · 0 fans >>
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"Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutified."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel · Labor · 0 fans >>
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