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“Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.” Karl Marx, Das Kapital
“Do you know that I have undergone three-quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Unlimited exploitation of cheap labour-power is the sole foundation of their power to compete.” Karl Marx, Das Kapital
“Human life and human labour were near. I must struggle on: strive to live and bend to toil like the rest.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.” Confucius, Analects
“A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it
“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might...” George Orwell, 1984
“Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye; but to bring light from obscurity, by whatever labour, must needs be delightful and rejoicing.” David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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