"Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you'd care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working."

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Source : Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd

Bob Black

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“I'll always remember when I first heard Lester [Young]. I'd never heard anyone like him before. He was a stylist with a different sound. A sound I'd never heard before or since. To be honest with you, I didn't much like it at first.”
“In the short walk between his aeroplane and reaching the outside world at Heathrow, Michael Bywater encountered no fewer than 93 separate notices telling him off for things he hadn't done or which hadn't even occurred to him to do. Being bossed and patronised are two sensations that most sophisticated adults would sooner do without and yet we are bossed and patronised, by the media, by politicians, by business, by advertising agencies and the public services, more now than at any other time in our history. Why should this be?”
“Few politicians are good at taking the high ground and throwing themselves off it.”

Source : 1996 Of Tony Blair and the revision of Clause Four. In the New Yorker, 5 Feb.
“When people are deeply happy they bring a sense of purpose with them wherever they go, whatever circumstances they are in. So if they're changing the oil in the car, they bring a sense of joyful purpose even to that.”
“Beyond the rightness or wrongness of things there is a field, I'll meet you there”
“People had been so attached to the Diane [Cheers] character that audiences and producers found it difficult to think of me in any other terms. It took some time before people would consider me for other parts.”
“There is not an inherent contradiction between a Ukraine that has longstanding historic and cultural ties to Russia, and a modern Ukraine that wants to integrate more closely with Europe.”
“What had been became what was and a story only works when you know the ending. When the people in it donâ€™t seem like pretend. When you can think about that girl and how she was once upon a time, and see her. When you donâ€™t already know the story is a lie.”

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