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“Nothing is more dangerous than to stop working. It is a habit that can soon be lost, one that is easily neglected and hard to resume. A measure of day-dreaming is a good thing, like a drug prudently used ... But too much submerges and drowns. Woe to the intellectual worker who allows himself to lapse wholly from positive thinking into day-dreaming. He thinks he can easily change back, and tells himself that it is all one. He is wrong! To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse poison with a source of nourishment.”

“We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.”

Needs Jobs America Training Workers Neglect Funding Unemployed Job Training Government Funding Underemployed

Author:Joe Baca

“How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was right to say Leonardo only worked from photographs.”

Workers Photograph Fragile Old Friends Leonardo

Author:Jean Cocteau

“The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask.”

Party Trouble Historical Workers Socialist Flasks Thermos

Author:Neil Kinnock

“The difference is that raving fans, unlike satisfied customers, become part of your sales force. They tell friends, family and co-workers about your services and your products. And, of course, good things will happen!”

Happens Courses Force Differences Fans Products Good Things Workers Customers Satisfied Family Friends Co Worker Satisfied Customers Sales Force

Author:Mac Anderson

“I was walking down the street the other day and these construction workers were working on the roof hammering away. One of them told me I was a paranoid lunatic... in morse code.”

Streets Walking Workers Code Construction Roof Lunatic Paranoid Construction Workers Morse Code

Author:Emo Philips

“Anyone believing the TPP is good for Americans take note: The foreign subsidiaries of U.S.-based corporations could just as easily challenge any U.S. government regulation they claim unfairly diminishes their profits - say, a regulation protecting American consumers from unsafe products or unhealthy foods, investors from fraudulent securities or predatory lending, workers from unsafe working conditions, taxpayers from another bailout of Wall Street, or the environment from toxic emissions.”

“Bolshevism is knocking at our gates, we can't afford to let it in...We must keep America whole and safe and unspoiled. We must keep the worker away from red literature and red ruses; we must see that his mind remains healthy.”

Mind Whole America Literature Healthy Safe Red Remains Workers Gates Knocking Bolshevism

Author:Al Capone

“The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.”

Men Black White Situation Men And Women Workers Boss Black And White

Author:Betty Friedan

“I'm not against trade...but they're not really trade deals. They're really investment deals between international corporations...They're saying we want to get a race to the bottom so we can exploit the most unfortunate worker.”

Want Deals Race Trade Investment Workers Bottom International Corporations Unfortunate Exploits

Author:Keith Ellison

“Our heavenly Father is more liberal in His views, and boundless in His mercies and blessings, than we are ready to believe or receive; and at the same time more terrible to the workers of iniquity, more awful in the executions of His punishments, and more ready to detect in every false way, than we are apt to suppose Him to be.”

Way Believe Father Views Ready Terrible Blessing Mercy Workers Punishment Awful Heavenly Execution Boundless Heavenly Father Iniquity

Author:Sam Smith

“Women do fool around. But the reason they don't get caught is that when a woman mess with a man he lives cross town, out of town. Fellas we mess with next door neighbor, co-worker, wondering why she found out.”

Men Reason Next Found Wonder Doors Fool Crosses Towns Workers Caught Neighbor Mess Co Worker Fellas Next Door Neighbors

Author:Bruce Bruce

“There's a big difference between poll workers and pole workers. Sadly.”

Bigs Differences Workers Polls

Author:Dana Gould

“The TPP is another corporate-backed agreement that is the latest in a series of trade policies which have cost us millions of decent-paying jobs, pushed down wages for American workers and led to the decline of our middle class. We want American companies to create decent-paying jobs in America, not just low-wage countries like Vietnam, Malaysia or China. The TPP must be defeated.”

“During the 1999 debate over Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China President Bill Clinton said, 'In opening the economy of China, the agreement will create unprecedented opportunities for American farmers, workers and companies to compete successfully in China's market. WRONG: Our trade deficit with China has increased from $83 billion in 2001 to a record breaking $342 billion in 2014.”

“I want to applaud those workers rallying to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour. I believe strongly that a great nation will not survive when so few have so much and so many have so little. Every worker in America should be given respect, dignity and the wages and benefits they need to take care of their family.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“As soon as the boss decides he wants his workers to do something, he has two problems: making them do it and monitoring what they do.”

Want Two Problem Workers Boss Monitoring

Author:Robert Krulwich

“When Obama boasts that it will be a huge boon to the economy to give amnesty to millions of low-wage workers, who won't pay income taxes but will need a lot of government services, remember: Obamacare was supposed to save money, too.”

Needs Giving Government Remember Pay Millions Economy Huge Taxes Lows Workers Income Boast Obamacare Income Tax Saving Money Amnesty Boon Government Service

Author:Ann Coulter

“Here we must distinguish between society and culture. A society can be interested in a man or woman only as a political or economic entity; a culture is interested in more. Culture means literally "to cultivate" or "to care for." Cultures care for their peoples as natural, spiritual beings and not simply as workers or consumers.”

Men Mean Care Spiritual Political Culture Natural Economic Workers Consumers Entity Spiritual Beings Society And Culture

Author:Laurence Boldt

“My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.”

Father Social Sides Musician Workers Painter Psychiatrist Social Worker

Author:Babatunde Adebimpe

“I was making guitars and I was a sheet metal worker and if you ever see sheet metal workers' hands, you've never seen so many cuts in your life.”

Ifs Hands Cutting Workers Guitar Metals Sheets

Author:Roger Daltrey

“I renounce all satanic assignments that are directed toward me and my ministry, and I cancel every curse that Satan and his workers have put on me. ... I reject all other blood sacrifices whereby Satan may claim ownership of me.”

May Sacrifice Blood Claims Workers Curse Satan Rejects Ministry Ownership Assignments Renounce Satanic Blood Sacrifice

Book:Walking in Freedom: 21 Days to Securing Your Identity in Christ

Source: Walking in Freedom: 21 Days to Securing Your Identity in Christ

“Private sector unionization is down to practically seven percent. Meanwhile the public sector unions have kind of sustained themselves [even] under attack, but in the last few years, there's been a sharp [increase in the] attack on public sector unions, which Barack Obama has participated in, in fact. When you freeze salaries of federal workers, that's equivalent to taxing public sector people.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“Stakeholders - meaning workers and community - the CEO could just as well be responsible to them. This presupposes there ought to be management but why does there have to be management? Why not have the stakeholders run the industry?”

Wells Doe Running Community Industry Ought Responsible Management Workers Why Not Ceo Being Responsible Stakeholder

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Worker ownership within a state capitalist, semi-market system is better than private ownership but it has inherent problems. Markets have well-known inherent inefficiencies. They're very destructive.”

Wells States Problem Known Workers Destructive Capitalist Inherent Ownership Well Known Inefficiency

Author:Noam Chomsky

“As I wrote Working toward Whiteness, I came to see one historic task on the New Deal - and one in which it succeeded - as the fostering of fuller U.S. citizenship among immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and their kids. But this very achievement separated poorer and often despised immigrant workers from Europe and workers of color in unprecedented ways.”

“The New Deal never rethought the draconian racist immigration restriction policies of the 20s, of course, but its electoral base rested significantly on "ethnic" voters, whose activism was both hemmed in and rewarded by the Democrats. Southern and Eastern Europeans were included as secondary leaders of the new industrial unions, and as entitled citizens qualified for social security, unemployment compensation, and fair labor standards protections, even as workers of color were largely left out of key areas of the welfare state.”

“The pioneer labor historian John Commons was not wrong when he wrote around World War One that exploiting and deepening such tensions as outpacing scientific management among U.S. innovations where bossing was concerned. Amidst the general miseries of proletarianization, workers also learned that one source of meager benefits and protections could lie in claiming a white skin.”

World War Lying White Source Benefits Concerned Labor Skins Innovation Management Misery Workers Protection War Of The Worlds Tension Historian Pioneers World War One White Skin

Author:David Roediger

“Communism then defines a society in which there are communal forms for dealing with resources. Many communal forms exist where there are not communist governments. The Mondragon cooperatives in Spain and the thousands of worker-owned cooperatives in the United States, are viable alternatives to capitalism.”

States Government Form United United States Capitalism Resources Workers Communism Alternatives Communist Spain Cooperatives

Author:Cynthia Kauffman

“I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.”

Given Workers Expected

Author:Victoria Beckham

“Ted Cruz supported a 500-percent increase in the number of H-1 visas, the guest workers that are allowed into this country, and Ted supports doubling the number of green cards.”

Country Numbers Support Percent Increase Green Workers Cards Guests Cruz Visa Green Card

Author:Marco Rubio

“I respect unions, I think they have an important role to pay and I listen to them, we meet with them, and they raise valid points on a lot of issues like worker safety and so forth, but I also respect the right of individual workers to decide whether they want to pay that fee and whether they want to join a union.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“Corporate America needs to get its act together to see that the education system is changed so it produces what it needs. The educational system that teaches kids to be passive recipients of knowledge worked when most workers were sitting in assembly lines.”

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Author:Seymour Papert

“I think that in a family some are workers some are not. I certainly saw my mother work very hard and be in charge and never show any kind of fear about business deals. Her golden rule was you should never be embarrassed talking about money and asking for what you deserved. I take the same view.”

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Author:Anne Robinson

“I had a lot of jobs, because I wanted to be an actor, and I had this bad habit of wanting to eat regularly. So, I had to make some money somewhere. I was everything from a stock worker in an Alexander's department store to flower delivery person to a messenger to a grocery clerk to a gas station attendant. I even worked in Macy's dusting off fur coats for two weeks.”

“I am very pro-union and very anti-authority by nature, so by showing the housekeepers and valets, I was being loyal to those people - those workers. I'm glad that the service industry unionized.”

People Industry Authority Unions Workers Glad Loyal Housekeepers Valet Service Industry

Author:Jacob Tomsky

“That's why I'm a big supporter of the death penalty. I want to be the hangman. I would put many more people to death like the kids who want to kill other people, I'd put 'em to death. Postal workers who get arrested, they have mental problems. You know what? When you're dead you don't have a mental problem. If you take a life, I will take yours. Put me in charge, I will fix it.”

People Ifs Knows Want Problem Bigs Kids Workers Ems Penalties Supporter Death Penalty Arrested Hangman

Author:Gene Simmons

“A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.”

Hard Hard Work Workers Reputation Good Reputation Hard Worker

Author:Kevin Hart

“Black Friday, in reality, is a symptom of the plight that 30 years of Reaganomics has brought to working people in America. Right along with the frenzied rise of shoppers willing to fight each other at retail outlets across America, we've been steadily, for the last 30 years, watching the destruction of organized labor ... of decent pay and wages and conditions for working people. ... We have Black Friday today because the wealthy elite have strangled their workers for 32 years, ever since Ronald Reagan's election.”

“Hostess Bakery plants shut down due to a workers' strike. It was split up. The State Department hired all the Twinkies, the Secret Service hired all the HoHos, the generals are sleeping with the Cupcakes and the voters sent all the Ding Dongs to Congress.”

States Sleep Secret Plant Workers Congress Dues Strikes Department Voters Splits Cupcakes Secret Service Hostesses Bakeries

Author:Argus Hamilton

“Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was to work hard, save hard and to look after your family.”

Looks Hard Culture Parent Hard Work Grew Grew Up Workers Our Family Migrants Migrant Workers

Author:Sanjeev Bhaskar

“For many of us, work is the one place where we feel appreciated. The things that we long to experience at home - pride in our accomplishments, laughter and fun, relationships that aren't complex - we sometimes experience most often in the office. Bosses applaud us when we do a good job. Co-workers become a kind of family we feel we fit into.”

Feels Kind Long Sometimes Home Jobs Fun Pride Fit Office Laughter Complexes Workers Accomplishment Boss Good Job Appreciated Co Worker

Author:Arlie Russell Hochschild

“Ed "The Truth Is Illegal" Markey responded to Teamster support for ANWR by dismissively sniffing, it was only "one issue." Luckily, the Democrats have all those other issues dear to the heart of the average blue-collar worker: abortion on demand, gay marriage and taxpayer-funded crucifixes submerged in urine.”

Heart Support Issues Truth Is Gay Demand Blue Democrat Workers Dear Average Abortion Illegal Gay Marriage Taxpayers Collars Blue Collar Submerged Sniffing Blue Collar Workers Anwr

Author:Ann Coulter

“Human beings have always been creative. The guys who were making the pyramids, and archaeological research has showed us this, had little figurines made by the workers, to express their devotion to their god.”

Humans Littles Made Guy Human Beings Creative Research Workers Devotion Pyramids

Author:Bill Viola

“In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.”

Wells Age School Jobs Pressure Workers Get Better Tied Better Jobs Grad Grad School Knowledge Workers

Author:Stephen Covey

“The money our society spends goes to appease those with power. As such, it goes mainly to those who don't need it. A nation that redistributes income to its poor buys a civilized and humane society, and it buys this with a miniscule share of the national income and a modest reduction in the supply of cleaning women. A country that subsidizes workers in the prime working years sacrifices, not a dust-free living room, but the very muscle of the national economy.”

“Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence prevails, passive obedience is demanded by the workers, who are ruled by overseers, not of their own election, but appointed from above. In theory they may be the subjects of a democratic state; but in practice they spend the whole of their working lives as the subjects of a petty tyrant.”

Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

“Change is more often a rapid transition between two stable states than a continuous transformation at slow and steady rates. . . .Change occurs in large leaps following a slow accumulation of stress that a system resists until it reaches the breaking point. Heat water, and it eventually boils. Oppress the workers more and more and bring on the revolution.”

Two States Water Revolution Stress Transformation Workers Rate Following Heat Leap Transition Steady Stable Rapids Accumulation Point Break Slow And Steady

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“Because what a temporary worker program would do is help relieve pressure on the border. It will allow our law enforcement officials and Border Patrol agents to focus on those who are coming here for the wrong reasons, the criminals and the drug dealers and the terrorists.”

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Author:Scott McClellan

“Just stop at one of these construction sites and look and see who those workers are. They're all Hispanic ... And I bet you they're illegal.”

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Author:John McCain

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