"I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else."
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"A foreman, if he's got a conscience, and delights in his work, will do his business as well as if he was a partner. I wouldn't give a penny for a man as 'ud drive a nail in slack because he didn't get extra pay for it."
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"There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit... Retire!"
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"Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality."
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"It is paradoxical but nonetheless true that the nearer man comes to his goal to make his life easy and abundant, the more he undermines the foundations of a meaningful existence."
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"If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?"
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"Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave."
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"If I don't die by Thursday, I'll be roaring Friday night."
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"The pay is good and I can walk to work."
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"Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it, deserves the attention of the United States government, and the people."
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"A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing."
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"The worst cynicism: a belief in luck."
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"One should not be assigned one's identity in society by the job slot one happens to fill. If we truly believe in the dignity of labor, any task can be performed with equal pride because none can demean the basic dignity of a human being."
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"When some fellers decide to retire nobody knows the difference."
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"If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation."
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"A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower."
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"The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works."
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"Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving."
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"To be at ease is better than to be at business."
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"I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can."
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