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870132d
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.
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want
greed
work
labor
weariness
need
vice
evil
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Voltaire |
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ffef2ec
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What needs my for his honoured bones, The labor of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?
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shakespeare
poetry
hallowed
pyramid
relics
labor
fame
honour
heir
william-shakespeare
memory
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John Milton |
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45f7c91
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No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear.
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persistence
love
inspirational
endurance
labor
resilience
christmas
practice
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Greg Kincaid |
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d326e2f
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In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest. Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.
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money
labor
class-warfare
profit
economics
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Adam Smith |
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8f5a886
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But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.
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work
dishonest
leo-tolstoy
hierarchy
labor
honest
capitalism
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Leo Tolstoy |
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3a1d66a
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It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn't be so many humans on the planet.
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labor
health
normal
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Ina May Gaskin |
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29af0de
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Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that would be even more alienated and violent if caring women did not do the work of teaching men who have lost touch with themselves how to love again. This labor of love is futile only when the men in question refuse to awaken, refuse growth. At this point it is a gesture of self-love for women to break their commitment and move on.
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violence
futility
life
love
labor
self-love
growth
resurrection
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Bell Hooks |
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72c9ca3
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The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions.
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day
tolstoy
labor
lord
rewards
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Leo Tolstoy |
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d68b766
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So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight.
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labor
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Victor Hugo |
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2c503f5
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The economics of industrialized countries would collapse if women didn't do the work they do for free: According to economist Marilyn Waring, throughout the West it generates between 25 and 40 percent of the gross national product.
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labor
society
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Naomi Wolf |
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2fcac26
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The acquisition by dishonest means and cunning,' said Levin, feeling that he was incapable of clearly defining the borderline between honesty and dishonesty. 'Like the profits made by banks,' he went on. 'This is evil, I mean, the acquisition of enormous fortunes without work, as it used to be with the spirit monopolists. Only the form has changed. Hardly were the monopolies abolished before railways and banks appeared: just another way of making money without work.
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work
banks
earnings
leo-tolstoy
railways
monopolies
labor
profits
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Leo Tolstoy |
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40f6207
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In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.
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work
labor
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Henry David Thoreau |
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8b80c86
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"Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered."
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imagination
my-life-story
treasures
labor
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Tad Williams |
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3440b09
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I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk for a muck-stick if he could avoid it.
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intelligence
labor-activism
manual-labor
labor
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John Steinbeck |
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739196e
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Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?
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current
present
future
compassion
love
hoarding
stewardship
labor
sharing
selfish
neighbor
saving
need
justice
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Randy Alcorn |
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538ec3c
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The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. To have done anything by which you earned money is to have been truly idle or worse. If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself. If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly. Those services which the community will most readily pay for it is most disagreeable to render. You are paid for being something less than a man. The State does not commonly reward a genius any more wisely. Even the poet laureate would rather not have to celebrate the accidents of royalty. He must be bribed with a pipe of wine; and perhaps another poet is called away from his muse to gauge that very pipe.
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money
work
occupations
labor
working
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Henry David Thoreau |
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752e9fc
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Work, then, institutionalizes homicide as a way of life. People think the Cambodians were crazy for exterminating themselves, but are we any different? The Pol Pot regime at least had a vision, however blurred, of an egalitarian society. We kill people in the six-figure range (at least) in order to sell Big Macs and Cadillacs to the survivors. Our forty or fifty thousand annual highway fatalities are victims, not martyrs. They died for nothing -- or rather, they died for work. But work is nothing to die for.
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work
labor
capitalism
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Bob Black |
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6771c8d
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It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor.
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wisdom
doctor
labor
health
normal
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Ina May Gaskin |
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e1559e2
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Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from activity.
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labor
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Erich Fromm |
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af122b5
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She'd been in labor for nineteen hours; I completely understood why she wanted to pass the buck. 'You are so beautiful,' her husband crooned, holding up her shoulders. 'You are so full of shit,' Lila snarled, but as a contraction settled over her like a net, she bore down and pushed.
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labor
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Jodi Picoult |
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The idea of labor, of hard work, leading to increased productivity was so novel, so radical, in the overall span of Western history that most ordinary people, most of those who labored, could scarcely believe what was happening to them. Labor had been so long thought to be the natural and inevitable consequence of necessity and poverty that most people still associated it with slavery and servitude. Therefore any possibility of oppression, any threat to the colonists' hard earned prosperity, any hint of reducing them to the povery of other nations, was especially frightening; for it seemed likely to slide them back into the traditional status of servants or slaves, into the older world where labor was merely a painful necessity and not a source of prosperity.
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radicalism
labor
prosperity
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Gordon S. Wood |
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0316cee
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There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things depend on work today.
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labor
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Nevil Shute |
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00cc953
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Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.
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violence
socialism
labor
synecdoche
capitalism
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Edmund Morris |
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d8fcad2
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Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power than can transform the world.
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unionization
labor
civil-rights
resist
resistance
protest
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Howard Zinn |
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c5f7a13
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She was willing a little bit of sweated labour, incapable of betraying the slogan of her slavers, that since the customer or sucker was paying for his gutrot ten times what it cost to produce and five times what it cost to fling in his face, it was only reasonable to defer to his complaints up to but not exceeding fifty per cent of his exploitation.
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waitress
labor
restaurants
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Samuel Beckett |
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87a423c
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"The anthropologist Marshall Sahlins, surveying the data on contemporary hunter-gatherers, exploded the Hobbesian myth in an article entitled "The Original Affluent Society." They work a lot less than we do, and their work is hard to distinguish from what we regard as play. Sahlins concluded that "hunters and gatherers work less than we do; and rather than a continuous travail, the food quest is intermittent, leisure abundant, and there is a greater amount of sleep in the daytime per capita per year than in any other condition of society." They worked an average of four hours a day, assuming they were "working" at all. Their "labor," as it appears to us, was skilled labor which exercised their physical and intellectual capacities..."
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work
anthropology
eco-socialism
work-life-balance
primitivism
labor
capitalism
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Bob Black |
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d788e4b
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Men who do not work themselves and who undertake nothing in their lives easily loose patience and fall into error when judging the work of others.
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impatient
labor
patience
impatience
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Ivo Andrić |
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91d71bb
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From Smith's principle that labor is the true measure of price--or, as Warren phrased it, that cost is the proper limit of price--these three men (Josiah Warren, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Karl Marx) made the following deductions: that the natural wage of labor is its product; that this wage, or product, is the only just source of income (leaving out, of course, gift, inheritance, etc.); that all who derive income from any other source abstract it directly or indirectly from the natural and just wage of labor; that this abstracting process generally takes one of three forms, interest, rent, and profit; that these three constitute the trinity of usury, and are simply different methods of levying tribute for the use of capital; that, capital being simply stored-up labor which has already received its pay in full, its use ought to be gratuitous, on the principle that labor is the only basis of price; that the lender of capital is entitled to its return intact, and nothing more; that the only reason why the banker, the stockholder, the landlord, the manufacturer, and the merchant are able to exact usury from labor lies in the fact that they are backed by legal privilege, or monopoly; and that the only way to secure to labor the enjoyment of its entire product, or natural wage, is to strike down monopoly.
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socialism
labor
property
ownership
economics
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Frank H Brooks |
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f8b7c06
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"He understood that this was the overseer's main skill, to recognize what was within human limits, but just barely. "Within, but just barely" was the optimum calibration, the unit of profit."
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slavery
labor
exploitation
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Rachel Kushner |
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c38eac9
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"It is interesting that a guy like W.E.B. Du Bois, who actually did very little, I should imagine, with his hands, wrote about "I am the smoke king." Without the labor, both free and slave, of African Americans this country would still be a wilderness."
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america
poetry
us
w-e-b-du-bois
usa
labor
united-states
race-relations
race
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Nikki Giovanni |