It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
—Upton Sinclair, 1935
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The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.
—Théophile Gautier, c. 1835Man is a tool-using animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1836In 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.
—John Ruskin, 1850Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1758I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889Eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, eight hours for what we will.
—Slogan of the National Labor Union of the United States, 1866I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
—Roald Dahl, 1984