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Saturday, 19 July 2008
Daily Quote:
"In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage." (Quincey, Thomas De - Conscience)

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Browse Quotations about Unemployment

A man who has no office to go to -- I don't care who he is -- is a trial of which you can have no conception.
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.
An unemployed existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work.
I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed.
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.


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