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“For the progress of humanity, work alone is not adequate, but the work should be associated with love, compassion, right conduct, truthfulness and sympathy.”

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Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“True Work is the necessity of poor humanity's earthly condition. The dignity is in leisure. Besides, 99 hundredths of all the work done in the world is either foolish and unnecessary, or harmful and wicked.”

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Book:Correspondence

Source: Correspondence

“What a denial of our humanity that at the centers of power, where decisions are made, there is no room for nurturing, for love, and children. There is more to life than the 'inhuman' work place. It is terrible that many men do not know that: it is a tragedy if women follow them.”

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Author:Dora Russell

“Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.”

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Author:Oscar Hammerstein II

“The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.”

Littles Done Humanity Individual Bits Work Pieces Pride Little Bit Machines Merit Defects Machinery

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.”

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Author:J. G. Holland

“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”

Source: Strength to Love

“We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.”

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Author:Tennessee Williams

“Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.”

“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for our own improvement, and at the same time share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.”

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Author:Marie Curie

“Human society is not a machine, and it must not be made such, even in the economic field.... Access to employment [shall not be] made to depend on registration in certain parties or in organization which deal with the distribution of employment.... It is necessary that humanity turn its gaze toward the action of God ... to aid and redeem mankind from all its ills.”

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Author:Pope Pius XII