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“Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.”

Humans Conditions Civilization Paid Trade Debt Revenge Insult Human Condition Loan

Author:Margaret Atwood

“There is a price to be paid for fabricating around us a society which is as artifical and as mechanized as our own, and this is that we can exist in it only on condition that we adapt ourselves to it. This is our punishment.”

Conditions Paid Environmental Punishment Stewardship

Author:Philip Sherrard

“Nobody in TV makes as much money as Robert Redford, who likes to make movies for several million dollars only on the condition that they contain some sort of social message. I cannot take very seriously a social message delivered by an actor who is paid nine million dollars to deliver it, and who charges you five dollars to see it.”

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Author:David Brinkley

“Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.”

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Book:Camus at Combat: Writing 1944-1947

Source: Camus at Combat: Writing 1944-1947

“I would say one thing people need to do - and his is how Roosevelt's New Deal began - let us go back to cities and states where we can, build emblematic progressive reforms, like the Fight for 15 minimum wage, paid sick leave, things that improve the conditions of people's lives and that drive them into a national message.”

People Needs States Fighting Deals Cities One Thing Conditions Messages Sick Paid Reform Progressive Minimum Minimum Wage New Deal Sick Leave

Author:Katrina vanden Heuvel

“If the American people have their health care paid for by the government, depending on their age and their condition, they will be subject to a health commission just like in England which will decide if their lives are worth living much longer.”

People Ifs Government Care Age Conditions Subjects England Paid Health Care Worth Living

Author:Nat Hentoff

“I think we go wrong when we insist, as some have done since 1945, on using experts who are paid Western salaries, drive beautiful cars and live in air-conditioned houses to teach people in the Third World how to improve their living conditions.”

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Author:Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

“You ask whether a woman should be paid the same wages as man when she does the same work? To this, there can be but one answer. If she does the same quantity and quality of work under the same conditions as a man, simple justice requires that she should be paid the same. wages. To deny her this is to deny her justice.”

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Book:Live Questions: Including Our Penal Machinery and Its Victims

Source: Live Questions: Including Our Penal Machinery and Its Victims

“The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid us in self-respect and human dignity.”

Humans Self Conditions Cost Dignity Paid Strikes Self Respect Contracts Wages Human Dignity Boycott Working Conditions

Author:Cesar Chavez

“Hey Deion, Bubbelah - maybe you'd better pay a little less attention to those unfairly Draconian salary caps that only allowed you to acquire four of the five remaining 1932 Aston Martins still in road-worthy condition after you'd paid for life's little necessities like hookers and weed, get your medulla oblongata out of your duodenum for a few milliseconds, and make a tackle or two, okay, Babe?”

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Author:Dennis Miller

“Conscription is an impediment to achieving the forces Australia needs. It is an alibi for failing to give proper conditions to regular soldiers. We will abolish conscription forthwith. By abolishing it, Australia will achieve a better army, a better-paid army - and a better, united society.”

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Author:Gough Whitlam

“I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.”

Enjoy Common Conditions Paid

Author:Ian Hislop

“It is to the real advantage of every producer, every manufacturer and every merchant to cooperate in the improvement of working conditions, because the best customer of American industry is the well-paid worker.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5