Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.

~ Criss Jami

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The hardest chore to do, and to do right, is to think. Why do you think the common man would choose labor, partially, as a distraction from his own thoughts? It is because that level of stress, he most absolutely abhors.

~ Criss Jami

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Today, the world rewards those with creative and intellectual muscles. So, women and skinny men need to shut up and start thinking.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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I spent the last Friday of summer vacation spreading hot, sticky tar across the roof of George Washington High. My companions were Dopey, Toothless, and Joe, the brain surgeons in charge of building maintenance. At least they were getting paid. I was working forty feet above the ground, breathing in sulfur fumes from Satan's vomitorium, for

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

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