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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an "ethic."

Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941), U.S. author, columnist. "Goodbye to the Work Ethic," The Worst Years of Our Lives (first published 1988, repr. 1991).

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