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"The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy. We arraign our daily employments."
"The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment."
"The retirement system that is in place for members of Congress and other federal workers features what is known as the Federal Employment Retirement Plan."
"In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind."
"We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium... These have withdrawn capital from useful improvements and employments to nourish idleness... These are evils more easily to be deplored than remedied."
"The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment."
"Could there be anything but widespread misery, where a privileged few controlled a nation's wealth, while millions labored for a pittance, and millions more were desperate for want of employment?"
"I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment."
"Employment is my right my destiny."
"I am not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary walk and tread the paths of private life with heartfelt satisfaction."
"One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature."
"If thousands are thrown out of employment, it suggests that they were not well employed. Why don't they take the hint? It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?"
"Desperation is the secret to my steady employment. I am not interested in downtime. I really like to keep working all the time and I always feel like I'm in the mail room of life; working up."
"For myself, I can't understand a life without a job. I don't know what I would do without employment. Retirement is out of the question for me."
"The full employment situation reinforces itself."
"No one gains from fair employment law and legislation if there is no employment to be had."
"It's always positive to hear how many people are willing to step up - whether it is the employment community, mental health community, or medical community."
"There is nothing derogatory in any employment which ministers to the well-being of the race. It is the spirit that is carried into an employment that elevates or degrades it."
