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• Obviously, our business leaders yield enormous influence on our political leaders, and they have a duty to use that influence for the greater good. But beyond that, the private sector depends on having healthy, educated and productive workers.

  Shakira

  Yield, Leader, Political

  Source: www.americasquarterly.org

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• For both Adam Smith and Karl Marx the essential work of caring for people, starting in early childhood, was "just women's work" - and in their minds not even classified as "productive work."

  Riane Eisler

  Caring, Productive Work, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• We are rapidly moving into the post-industrial age, when we must redefine what is "productive" work, as more and more jobs are being replaced by automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence.

  Riane Eisler

  Jobs, Moving, Productive Work

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Activity that perishes, that is not productive of the eternal, of the lasting, is of very little use.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Use, Littles, Lasting

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• We can't afford to waste people. We can't afford to have people think the game is over before it's begun. We've got to be saying to the Canadian people: you can't tax cut your way to a productive 21st-century economy. You can talk that talk, but it's not going to give you a productive 21st-century economy, because it will scythe apart the public goods that make prosperity possible. That's what we've got to say, and so we shall.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Cutting, Thinking, Games

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I am passionate about reading, for myself and for kids. Our future as a compassionate, productive, healthy society is rooted in our continuing to engage our minds and spirits. The key for me is in keeping it joyful as an activity.

  Emma Walton Hamilton

  Reading, Kids, Keys

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Many of those on the right distrust the Fed and want to eliminate its power in the belief that the private economy, including the private banks, will be much more efficient, productive and even democratic if they are left to themselves: in other words, the criticism of the Fed really reflects a desire to cripple the government in the service of increasing the power and authority of the market.

  Gerald Epstein

  Government, Criticism, Desire

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Anyone who studies the energy predicament understands its connection with the operations of capital - and by this I do not mean capitalism as an ideology, I mean the behavior of acquired wealth and its deployment for productive purpose. (A lot of educated idiots don't understand this, and we waste a lot of time blathering about capitalism.)

  James Howard Kunstler

  Mean, Deployment, Energy

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• We have to make some things for ourselves because the conveyer belt from China is doomed (this process is known as import replacement). We have to do transportation differently, because mass motoring and even commercial aviation will soon be over. We have to inhabit the landscape differently because both suburbia and the metroplex mega-city will be obsolete, so we will have to return to a more traditional disposition of things in smaller urbanisms associated with productive agricultural hinterlands.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Cities, Return, Landscape

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• What I'm interested in is Britain projecting itself abroad, and through that its values and the things it holds dear. And I don't think you do that by refusing to talk to the world's second-largest economy [China]. In fact, that is positively counter-productive in my view.

  George Osborne

  Thinking, Views, World

  Source: www.economist.com

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• I started acting at seven years old. It took me 20 years to understand that if I was going to make my dreams a reality, I had to take the reigns. I had to learn something about being productive and being self what's the word I'm looking for? Self-sufficient, but I had to be productive at all costs and I had to make product.

  Vin Diesel

  Dream, Reality, Self

  Source: ellisbenus.com

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• It would be impossible to calculate the psychic damage concepts of sin has inflicted on generations of children who might have grown up into healthy, happy. productive, zestful human beings but for the burden of antisexual fear and guilt ingrained in them by the Church. This alone is enough to condemn religion.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Children, Psychics, Healthy

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• The productive sender is the outer world, the external reality including our own body. The receiver is our deep self, the conscious ego, which then transforms the outer stimuli into a psychological experience.

  Albert Hofmann

  Reality, Self, Ego

  Interview with Stanislav Grof, www.maps.org. 1984.

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• I can't speak for everybody, but sometimes, people get in this showbiz game and they get the money, but then they forget why they got in the game in the first place. I don't even look at it as fame, I just look at it as me being me, and me going out here everyday and being productive, because I am the product, and I'm selling myself. I'm selling my ambition and my integrity and my adversity, and I'd just like to be that.

  Young Jeezy

  Integrity, Ambition, Adversity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• President Barack Obama, to his credit, has given - issued personal pardons in deserving cases. But he should go far beyond. He should proceed to what is in fact an urgent necessity: to grant a general pardon to 11 million people who are living and working here, productive citizens in all but name, threatened with deportation by the incoming Donald Trump administration. This would be a horrible humanitarian tragedy, a moral outrage.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Tragedy, President

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I'm very comfortable with being productive. I like doing things, and I like creating things. As far as being powerful, I guess I'm comfortable with it. It's not really how I think of myself.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Powerful, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I so wreak of logic and commonsense that it is obviously very refreshing in this world of otherwise soulless politically correct denial and dishonesty. God knows America would be the greatest again if she operated like the Nugent family. No takers, no whiners, no gangsters, no dopers, no drunks, no criminals, no bloodsuckers, no excuse makers, no crybabies, no punks, no Obama supporters. My entire team are dedicated to be the absolute best that we can be and as productive as humanly possible. Wouldn't that be great if all of America were like that.

  Ted Nugent

  Team, Denial, World

  Source: www.classicrockmusicwriter.com

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• I don't know who you would blame for this, whether Ricardo or others, but we created a fictitious economic theory to praise a rentier or rent-derived, interest-derived capitalism that countered productive forces within the economy.

  Chris Hedges

  Blame, Praise, Economic

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The concept of productivity in America is income divided by labor. So if you're Goldman Sachs and you pay yourself $20 million a year in salary and bonuses, you're considered to have added $20 million to GDP, and that's enormously productive. So we're talking in a tautology. We're talking with circular reasoning here.

  Michael Hudson

  Labor, Productivity

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Today's national income statistics make it appear that Goldman Sachs is productive. As if Donald Trump plays a productive role. The aim is to make it appear that people who take money from the rest of the economy without working are productive, despite not really providing any service that actually contributes to GDP and economic growth.

  Michael Hudson

  People, Growth, Economic

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Now we're in a very different economy. Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s American management started to do the right things. There was extraordinary investment in technology. The dominant questions now are less how to do it better, how to manage better, how to make the economy better, than how to have fuller and more meaningful lives. Because the irony is, now that we've come through this great transition, even though our organizations and our people are extraordinarily productive, many feel that the nonwork side of life is very thin.

  Robert Reich

  Meaningful, Technology, People

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• If Palestinian Authority refuse to join the US-run negotiations, their basis for support would collapse. They survive on donations essentially. Israel has made sure that it's not a productive economy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Support, Donation, Economy

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• For a long time, the humans are going to be better than the machines and so different parts of the job will be leveraged. In a way that's happened for centuries, and we've adapted. And it's made the people who had parts of their jobs automated more valuable and more productive to the extent that they are essential for the other components of their jobs.

  Erik Brynjolfsson

  Long, People, Different

  Source: www.npr.org

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• For me, having a daughter made me much more efficient and productive. I would wake up in the morning trying to figure out how to organize my day so that I could get home. The phone calls with friends, the lunches out with colleagues - all of that got scrapped so that I could be as efficient and productive as possible.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Daughter, Morning, Home

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It's not natural to have to suffer when we work. We're made to be productive, and yet the world we live in, there's a whole bunch of suffering. And what they need to understand as 10-year-olds, so that when they're 15 and slightly less protected, and when they're 20 and they're moving into a truly semi-independent state, they need to have experienced that memory of persevering and having gotten through hardship.

  Benjamin E. Sasse

  Memories, Moving, Suffering

  "No More Neverland: A Senator's Guide To Raising American Adults". "All Things Considered" with Steve Inskeep, nprillinois.org. May 16, 2017.

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