"I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer."

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Source : Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

Leland Stanford

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“Do you see how Jerry Heller made it work? That is how he combined what we did to make the rap music into mass music. That's exactly how it happened.”
“To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.”
“I was a big comic book fan from 13 on.”
“In 1980, business at my company, Chuck E. Cheese's, was thriving and I was feeling flush. So I bought a very large house on the Champ de Mars in Paris, right between the Eiffel Tower and the Ecole Militaire. The home was quite amazing: At six stories, it spanned 15,000 square feet and featured marble staircases and a swimming pool in the basement.”
“I believe in being positive.”
“If my mind's not trying to fix something or create something, I don't know what to do. It just throws me off.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Government is saying to the average citizen every January 1: 'For the next five months you'll be working for us, for goals we shall determine. Is that clear? After May 5 you may look after your own needs and ambitions, but report back to us next January. Now move along.' ... If nearly half of what you make is spent by someone else, that means that half your work time is spent working for someone else. Call me a radical, but I think that comes dangerously close to being a form of indentured servitude.”
“Work a lifetime to pay off a house You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.”

Source : Arthur Miller (2015). “The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.150, Penguin

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