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“The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.”

Work Objects Workers

Author:Karl Marx

“Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.”

Funny Science Three Lost Work Break Objects Computer Majors Down And Categories Breaking Down Break Up Lost Friendship Inanimate Objects

Author:Russell Baker

“Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.”

Hope Work Objects Draws Without Hope Nectar

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced them. But it has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.”

World Should Whole Government Age Work Happened Objects Products Hard Work Labor Good Things Fruit Worthy Secure Enjoyed Proportion Labour Labourers Fruit Of Labor

Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.”

Children Work Society Objects Train Profit Employers Profitable Getting High Employing

Book:Lewis Hine: photographs of child labor in the new South

Source: Lewis Hine: photographs of child labor in the new South

“I believe that labor is a blessing. It never was and never will be a curse. It is a blessed thing to labor for . . . the ones you love. It is a blessed thing to have an object in life - something to do - something to call into play your best thoughts, to develop your faculties and to make you a man.”

Men Believe Play I Believe Work Objects Blessing Labor Blessed Curse Faculty

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll