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- One of the things that keeps you from dropping them in the nearest volcano is that you had to work too hard to get them. You had to cry, you had to scream, you had to sweat, you had to cuss out health care officials, and when that's all over with, you'll be willing to put up with a lot more from your kids.
- Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Baby Blues, 1994
- We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
- Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
- The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.
- Johann Von Neumann (1903 - 1957)
- All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
- Bible, Isaiah 32:17
- Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with.
- Stephen Vizinczey, An Innocent Millionaire
- I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.
- Jay Gould (1836 - 1892)
- From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
- Louis Blanc (1811 - 1882), The Organization of Work, 1840
- I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.
- Nikita Khrushchev (1894 - 1971), Speech in Yugoslavia, Aug. 24, 1963
- Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
- Gerald R. Ford (1913 - 2006), on becoming President, Aug. 9, 1974
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