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The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.
— Oscar Wilde
We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
— Ronald Reagan
Devotion," said Bishop Hall, "is the life of religion, the very soul of piety, the highest employment of grace." It is much to be feared that "we are weak in the pulpit because we are weak in the closet.
— Horatius Bonar
What a shocking set of crooks these English servants are! Not even murder will turn them from their feudal devotion to the man who pays!
— Dorothy Sayers
Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.
— Mahatma Gandhi
To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.
— Gloria Steinem
Ebonics is not a separate language. It is ghetto speech and substandard English. To claim that ebonics is a positive way of communicating for blacks is to condemn blacks to menial jobs and economic inferiority. A person who fails to learn correct language skills is forever handicapped in seeking employment.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
If you own a butcher shop, don't hire vegetarians. To hire the right people, you have to let the wrong people go.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Laban said to him, “Just because you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”
— Genesis 29:15
I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.
— Dolly Parton
Do not regard it as a hardship to set your servant free, because his six years of service were worth twice the wages of a hired hand. And the LORD your God will bless you in all you do.
— Deuteronomy 15:18