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“The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of the eternal order of Nature, while Marx regards it as a passing phase in the transition from the feudal economy of the past to the socialist economy of the future.”

Source: Essay on Marxian Economics

“Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling squirrel-cage of economic confusion in which we have been madly turning for the last three centuries or so, the cage in which we landed ourselves by acquiescing in a social system based upon Envy and Avarice. A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste.”

Thinking Way Has Beens Whole Lasts Order Three Social Work Economic Century Waste Economics Productions Envy Confusion Consumption Cages Trash Avarice Squirrels Social Systems

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“Within each experience of pain or negativity is the opportunity to challenge the perception that lies behind it, the fear that lies behind it, and choose to learn with wisdom. The fear will not vanish immediately, but it will disintegrate as you work with courage. When fear ceases to scare you, it cannot stay. When you choose to learn through wisdom, to evolve consciously, your fears surface one at a time in order for you to exorcise them with inner faith. This is how it happens. You exorcise your own demons.”

Source: The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide

“To be the agent whose touch changes nature from a wild force to a work of art is inspiration of the highest order.”

Inspirational Art Inspiration Order Force Nature Work Highest Art Is Agents Works Of Art

Author:Robert Rodale

“In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.”

Source: Pre-Raphaelitism

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”

Source: Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson

“I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that I wanted a job, that I was qualified for a job, was too much for me. Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.”

“Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.”

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it - not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.”

People Thinking World Needs Wells May Has Beens Done Success Order Three Work Too Much Needed Fit Testimony Three Things Doubtful Confirmation

Author:W. H. Auden

“We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work, although, there has been in these days, some interest in this kind of thing.”

“In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.”

Men Should May Order Work Judging Hard Work Capable Good Judges

Book:The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals and Religion: Selected from the Works of John Ruskin...

Source: The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals and Religion: Selected from the Works of John Ruskin...

“And it is to these rights - the right of law and order, the right of life, the right of liberty, the right of a job, the right of a home in a decent neighborhood, and the right to an education - it is to these rights that I pledge my life and whatever capacity and ability I have.”

Home Jobs Law Order Work Ability Liberty Rights Capacity Human Rights Decent Neighborhood Pledge Law And Order

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“When you offer a vibration, the Universal forces are working in concert with each other in order to satisfy you. You really are the center of the Universe.”

Inspirational Spiritual Order Universe Force Work Self Esteem Offers Universal Satisfaction Esteem Law Of Attraction Concerts Satisfying Spiritual Wisdom Vibrations Thoughts Become Things Center Of The Universe

Author:Esther Hicks

“They have eliminated rigidity, both physical and psychological, in order to support more fluid processes whereby temporary teams are created to deal with specific and ever-changing needs. They have simplified roles into minimal categories; they have knocked down walls and created workplaces where people, ideas, and information circulate freely.”

Source: Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World

“Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.”

Done Order Work Secret

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir