Quote by Thomas Carlyle
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the sad

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortunes inequality exhibits under this sun. – Thomas Carlyle

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When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of mans soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances. – Thomas Carlyle

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We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility. – Thomas Carlyle

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I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one. – Lucille Ball

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism its egotism. – Robert Frost

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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out. – Abu Bakr

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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve ones dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly. – Ryszard Kapuscinski

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