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“Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.”

Death Work Watches Mirrors

Author:Jean Cocteau

“I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.”

Should May Stills States Death Work Garden Function Agree Indifferent Find Me Unfinished Cabbage

Book:The Essays

Source: The Essays

“In Japan, employees occasionally work themselves to death. It’s called Karoshi. I don’t want that to happen to anybody in my department. The trick is to take a break as soon as you see a bright light and hear dead relatives beckon.”

Want Light Happens Funny Death Work Break Humorous Tricks Department Employee Japan Bright Lights

Book:The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions

Source: The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions

“Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.”

Ifs Giving Helping Funny Death Work Seeing Havens Television Tvs Murder Sarcastic Antagonism

Book:Hitchcock on Hitchcock: Selected Writings and Interviews

Source: Hitchcock on Hitchcock: Selected Writings and Interviews

“In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.”

Mean Doe Has Beens Country States Wisdom Death Politics Work Principles Economy Communism Liberalism Opposition Sole Replaced Employers Starvation

Book:The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and where is it Going?

Source: The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and where is it Going?

“Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.”

“Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord - march on, the Lord is our General. Do not look back to see who falls - forward - onward! Thus and thus we shall go on, brethren. One falls, and another takes up the work”

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda