“All day long they work so hard
Till the sun is goin' down.
Working on the highways and byways
And wearing, wearing a frown.
You hear them moanin' their lives away.
Then you hear somebody say:"That's the sound of the men working on the chain gang.
That's the sound of the men working on the chain gang."”

Chain Gang
Song lyrics, Singles

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American singer-songwriter and entrepreneur 1931–1964

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“Men give the same lines to different women for the same reason women wear the same perfume for different men; we all try the things that work.”

Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate

Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. 246.

“Every now and then, when you're onstage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.”

Shelley Winters (1920–2006) actress

Theatre Arts magazine, June 1956 http://books.google.com/books?id=9ENNAAAAYAAJ

“No less incommensurable with the working-world than the philosophical question is the sound of true poetry. […] The lover, too, stands outside the tight chain of efficiency of this working world, and [so does] whoever else approaches the margin of existence through some deep existential disturbance (which always brings a "shattering" of one's environment), or through, say, the proximity of death.”

Josef Pieper (1904–1997) German philosopher

Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), The Philosophical Act, pp. 67–68

“One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“Every one who has a heart and eyes sees that you, working men, are obliged to pass your lives in want and in hard labor, which is useless to you, while other men, who do not work, enjoy the fruits of your labor—that you are the slaves of these men, and that this ought not to exist.”

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer

"To the Working People," Complete Works, trans. Leo Wiener, Vol 24, p. 129 (1905)

“Achievement is made of sweat and tears, so every single day you need to put in the work, and work as hard as you can!”

Ruben Vergara Meersohn (1991) Entrepreneur

Hours replying to business messages https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPsmLUDWq-E at 0:34 min, published 10 September 2017.

“Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

1940s, The World As I See It (1949)

“No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down. ”

Андре Ромелль Янг (Dr. Dre) (1965)

“A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized”

Fred Allen (1894–1956) comedian

Treadmill to Oblivion.

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