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A human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

—Dorothy L. Sayers, 1947

The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.

—Eugene V. Debs, 1905

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper that did his job well.

—Martin Luther King Jr., 1954

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

—Ulysses S. Grant, 1877

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

—Oscar Wilde, 1891

He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

—Anatole France, 1881
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