#labor

With intellectual labor your hard work is forever, while with manual labor your hard work is temporary and soon forgotten.
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— Jarod Kintz

#forgotten #hard-work #intellect #intellectual #labor

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 free. Character building, my father said. Mandatory community service, the judge said. Court-ordered restitution for the Foul Deed. He nailed me with the bill for the damage I had done, which meant I had to sell my car and bust my hump at a landscaping company all summer. Oh, and he gave me six months of meetings with a probation officer who thought I was a waste of human flesh. Still, it was better than jail. I pushed the mop back and forth, trying to coat the seams evenly. We didn't want any rain getting into the building and destroying the classrooms. Didn't want to hurt the school. No, sir, we sure didn't. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#community-service #hard-labor #wit #satan

Without labor nothing prospers. ↗

— Sophocles

#nothing #prospers #without

Only with the tools of production in their own hands could the workers ever hope to control their own lives and receive the fruits of their labor. ↗

— Ella R. Bloor

#could #ever #fruits #hands #hope

God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#devil #division #effort #god #labor

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous. ↗

— Bill Bradley

#generous #leaders #modest #should

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#collaboration #i #i think #nature #revealed

I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way. ↗

— Norman Lamm

#century #elaborated #going #i #implicit

Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#created #developed #division #down #economical

The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide division of labor: free trade is the principal point in the program of internationalism. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#division #expressed #free #free trade #international