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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
-Victor Hugo
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Thought Is The Labor Of The Intellect,

Victor Hugo
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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Labor, being itself a commodity, is measured as such by the labor time needed to produce the labor-commodity. and what is needed to produce this labor-commodity? just enough labor time to produce the objects indispensable to the constant maintenance of labor, that is, to keep the worker alive and in a condition to propagate his race. the natural price of labor is no other than the wage minimum.
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It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. man performs actions because they are good for him, and when they are good for other people as well they are thought virtuous: if he finds pleasure in helping others he is benevolent; if he finds pleasure in working for society he is public-spirited; but it is for your private pleasure that you give twopence to a beggar as much as it is for my private pleasure that i drink another whiskey and soda. i, less of a humbug than you, neither applaud myself for my pleasure nor demand your admiration.
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Labor, like israel, has many sorrows. its women weep for their fallen and they lament for the future of the children of the race. it ill behooves one who has supped at labor's table and who has been sheltered in labor's house to curse with equal fervor and fine impartiality both labor and its adversaries when they become locked in deadly embrace.
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We don't always possess faith in the sense of having a clear embodiment of something to hang on to. the relationship between the intellect and faith is a very curious one. sometimes the intellect can point us to faith, sometimes the intellect can stand in the way of faith. sometimes, as st john of the cross points out, we have to darken or blind the intellect in order to have faith.
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