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The more the machine is improved and the more quickly and more precisely it performs a human worker’s labor, the worker, instead of extending his former rest times, redoubles his ardor, as if he wished to rival the machine. O, absurd and murderous competition!
The Right to Be Lazy and Other Essays
Paul Lafargue and Ulrich Baer
As I slowly fill with the knowledge of this place, and sink into it, I come to the sense that my life here is inexhaustible, that its possibilities lie rich behind and ahead of me, that when I am dead it will not be used up.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
I knew there was one rule that held fast across the universe: if you wanted to get someone on your side what you really had to do was relieve their pain.
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