Top 100 Quotes About Unemployed

#1. Writing was something I always liked, but it wasn't a career until I was laid off from my executive position in my 30s. I started a website because I was bored, unemployed and angry.

Jen Lancaster

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#2. All unemployed Jews are sent to labour camps in the countryside. A survivor remembered that "It was like a Russian winter. The snow lay metres deep on the tracks and froze over. To be there made one feel as though one was overwintering in Nova Zemlya."27

Geert Mak

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#3. I hate to see anybody be unemployed, but if there's a certain segment of society I think it's political consultants and operatives.

Rob Zerban

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#4. I have invested some money and I have a home, but people don't realise that you might only be working for a few weeks of the year and remain unemployed the rest of the time.

Greta Scacchi

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#5. You have this disturbing reality that there are a lot of people who would rather say, 'I'm on strike' than 'I'm unemployed.' And those are the people who vote for strikes.

Dick Wolf

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#6. One Forbes article suggests that as many as 53 percent of college graduates are unemployed or underemployed relative to their education level.

Shannon Young

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#7. What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work - and masses of unemployed?

Andy Grove

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#8. During the next four years ... unless drastic steps are taken by Congress, the U.S. will have nearly 8,000,000 unemployed and will stand on the brink of a deep depression.

Henry A. Wallace

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#9. Woe be to the generation that lets any higher faculty in its midst go unemployed.

Henry David Thoreau

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#10. In terms of the unemployed, of which we have over a million-and-a-half, don't feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don't feel bad about it themselves, as long as they're receiving generous social assistance and unemployment insurance.

Stephen Harper

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#11. I've never been unemployed. I've never been very fully employed either.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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#12. Conservative coaches have one thing in common; they are unemployed.

Chuck Knox

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#13. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, a family is defined as two or more people living together who are related by birth, marriage or adoption. In other words, the U.S. Census Bureau is run by radical leftists. Why do you think there's a whole category for the unemployed?

Stephen Colbert

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#14. Once I was unemployed and didn't have money, you can't just go to dinner. The onus is on you to learn to cook ... I learned how important the right equipment is.

Jen Lancaster

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#15. We want to change the way we help unemployed people find jobs. We want to be faster and more goal oriented.

Gerhard Schroder

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#16. Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed.

Joseph Hume

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#17. Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.

Zig Ziglar

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#18. I like to be on TV when interviewers are good. I like it especially when it's live. When they can cut things, I don't like it as much. Sometimes they cut something and say, "Well, you would get in trouble, you would get a lawsuit." I tell them, "Well, I don't want my lawyers to be unemployed.

Karl Lagerfeld

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#19. The idealism of the left is a very selfish idealism. In their war against 'the rich' and big business, they don't care how much collateral damage there is to workers who end up end up unemployed.

Thomas Sowell

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#20. I think of the difficulties which, in various countries, today afflicts the world of work and business; I think of how many, and not just young people, are unemployed, many times due to a purely economic conception of society, which seeks selfish profit, beyond the parameters of social justice.

Pope Francis

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#21. You know daytime television? You know what it's supposed to be for? It's to keep unemployed people happy. It's supposed to stop them running to the social security demanding mad luxuries like cookers and windows.

Victoria Wood

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#22. We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.

Joe Baca

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#23. In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.

David Miliband

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#24. Whenever I write about immigration, I hear heart-wrenching stories of computer workers who are unemployed and facing severe hardship.

Vivek Wadhwa

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#25. Many men ridicule the idea that it can be scientifically handled. They tell us the unemployed have always been with us, and always must be. It is the oldest reason in the world for tolerating injustice and misery.

Ida Tarbell

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#26. This [Gang of Eight bill (S.744)] is far, far too many low-skilled workers that are going to take jobs and pull down wages of people unemployed and underemployed right now.

Jeff Sessions

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#27. One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

Oscar Wilde

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#28. I'm just what America needs: another unemployed black man. (on his retirement from basketball)

Charles Barkley

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#29. If the unemployed could eat plans and promises, they would be able to spend the winter on the Riviera.

W.E.B. Du Bois

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#30. Unemployed and dependent - is not as parasite.

Jason Read

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#31. If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going to make crack look like Sanka.

Dennis Miller

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#32. I basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight, and the two things that saved me were the rugby league and my dog.

Ben Mendelsohn

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#33. *I'm hustling* is a low self-esteem having man's way of saying *I'm unemployed,* when answering a seemingly materialistic woman's question as to what he does for a living.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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#34. He who delights in work will not long remain unemployed.

James Allen

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#35. I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

Derek Jacobi

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#36. Our course, then, is clear; if we desire to put an end to pauperism, or to lessen it, we should import everything we can use or sell, in order that we may employ our unemployed hands, in making the goods by which we pay for these imports.

Joseph Hume

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#37. Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.

Nathan Fillion

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#38. We are being tough in saying it is a duty on the unemployed in future not only to be available for work - and not to shirk work - but also to get the skills for work. That is a new duty we are introducing.

Gordon Brown

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#39. The reason I am unemployed for six months out of every year is because I have to turn down most of the films I'm offered. If I didn't, I'd only ever play a dark, satanic count on a horse.

Rufus Sewell

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#40. When people say they're unemployed, bored, or have nothing to do, I sigh and think, "If only time were transferable.

Joyce Rachelle

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#41. In 1843, everybody was hungry, unemployed, and conditions were very bad.

Claire Tomalin

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#42. Washington's insatiable desire to spend our children's inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given record debt and left us with far too many unemployed.

Rick Perry

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#43. In the course of carrying through our program for which we have calculated four years, two and one-quarter million out of six million unemployed have already received employment again within a period of eight short months.

Adolf Hitler

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#44. I feel certain that Conservatism is through unless Conservatives can demonstrate and communicate the difference between being concerned with [the unemployed, the sick without medical care, human welfare, etc.] and believing that the federal government is the proper agent for their solution.

Barry M. Goldwater

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#45. It is time to train British workers for the British jobs that will be available over the coming few years and to make sure that people who are inactive and unemployed are able to get the new jobs on offer in our country.

Gordon Brown

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#46. Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.

Romano Prodi

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#47. Around 80% of Liberians are unemployed and only half of all children go to primary school. Just one in 20 go on to secondary school. Young children are on the streets instead of in the classrooms. We are not giving them the opportunity to learn and they will struggle to get jobs when they grow up.

George Weah

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#48. The unions might be good for the people who are in the unions but it doesn't do a thing for the people who are unemployed. Because the union keeps down the number of jobs, it doesn't do a thing for them.

Milton Friedman

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#49. From the unemployed Sloucher Lumpl W, who reclined on Passover not because it was religious custom but because why should that night be different from all others?: I'm not the greatest person that ever lived, but I would be a good father, and you know it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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#50. These are his people, this congregation of misfits, crack addicts, and drunks, the unshaven, unwashed, unemployed, and unwanted.

Lee Strobel

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#51. The rich had been assured of his wealth and comfort, the toiler assured of his life and work. No doubt in that perfect world there had been no unemployed problem, no social question left unsolved. And

H.G.Wells

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#52. Germany cannot get out of the euro. What it has to do, therefore, is make the economy more flexible - to eliminate the restrictions on prices, on wages and on employment; in short, the regulations that keep 10 percent of the German workforce unemployed.

Milton Friedman

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#53. An army of unemployed led by millionaires quoting the Sermon on the Mount - that is our danger.

George Orwell

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#54. Few things are more pathetic than an unemployed man with a business card.
P.15

Jonathan Tropper

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#55. I would love to be in New York, but it's really hard to be unemployed in New York. Everyone's got a place to be. In L.A., there's a system, a science to being unemployed.

Jake McDorman

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#56. Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who's unemployed in the world, you feel there's no meaning and there's a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well.

Hans Blix

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#57. At this time on a weekday morning, the library was refuge to the retired, the unemployed, and the unemployable ... 'I'm not always this gabby,' the librarian said. 'It's just so nice to talk to someone who isn't constructing a conspiracy theory or watching videos of home accidents on YouTube.

Myla Goldberg

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#58. As an actress, you're perpetually about to be unemployed. That fear - when you have two parents who worked 9-to-5 jobs and went through periods of being unemployed - is real. Those were not welcome times in my childhood.

Anna Kendrick

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#59. After Psychonauts went on to be very, very popular in Europe, I got busy with my next big project: being unemployed.

Erik Wolpaw

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#60. Being unemployed has so many real and palpable ramifications but there are also psychological side effects which you can only understand if you've truly lived through it.

Mika Brzezinski

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#61. And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again.

David Steinberg

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#62. Every woman needs to think about her career above everything. And I'll say it again ... Kate [Siegel] is unemployed.

Kate Siegel

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#63. I found that golf saved me from going to the pub every day, so instead, I play golf with other unemployed actors. I'm a member of the Stage Golfing Society, and I play golf with all sorts of people.

Phil Daniels

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#64. Goddesses never die. They slip in and out of the world's cities, in and out of our dreams, century after century, answering to different names, dressed differently, perhaps even disguised, perhaps idle and unemployed, their official altars abandoned, their temples feared or simply forgotten.

Phyllis Chesler

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#65. BJ Novak gets the Perseverance Award for graduating from Harvard and being unemployed for the entire plane ride to Los Angeles.

Andy Kindler

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#66. The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless.

Dominique Bouhours

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#67. In a materialistic society, an employed boy is older than an unemployed man.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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#68. Have you noticed that all the news, statistics, strategies about unemployment are provided by those who are employed? As soon as you are unemployed you cease to exist ...

Dale Spender

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#69. I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.

Robert Capa

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#70. I say to my team all the time that this is how I grew up: Always thinking that, at any minute, I could be unemployed. You have to scramble. You have to work hard and get ahead of things.

Ursula Burns

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#71. It's sad that several political parties still count the dead, the starving, the unemployed by their religion, caste, creed and sect. The young generation needs to engage in politics of right vs wrong and not right vs left.

Sharad Vivek Sagar

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#72. I haven't gotten fired from many jobs, but you finish a job and nine times out of ten you're just unemployed and you don't know where the next one is. And that does get old. It's stressful.

Tom Selleck

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#73. Remove the heavy clothing of your self-definition. You are not woman, you are not American, you are not son, you are not spiritual seeker, executive, teacher, unemployed, you are not wounded, you are not highly respected, you are not productive, you are not blah-blah-blah-blah.

Jan Frazier

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#74. Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been looking forward to it for a while.

Adam Brody

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#75. Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

Edward Heath

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#76. I've never believed unemployment numbers because the way that they calculate unemployment makes no sense whatsoever. It's not how many people are unemployed. It's how many people are actively looking for a job.

Suze Orman

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#77. I'm gonna be unemployed when people read this. Ha.

Marlee Matlin

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#78. I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

Francesca Annis

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#79. Millions are unemployed and our roads are falling apart. If we can spend $6 trillion sending people to war, we can spend $1 trillion to put Americans to work fixing our nation's crumbling infrastructure. Let's rebuild America and create jobs.

Bernie Sanders

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#80. I teach at Caltech and oversee a research laboratory there. In general, I find that the majority of young people are excited by the prospects of research, but they soon discover that in the current market, many doctorate-level scientists are holding temporary positions or are unemployed.

Ahmed Zewail

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#81. Being unemployed is even more disastrous for individuals than you'd expect. Aside from the obvious harm - poverty, difficulty paying off debts - it seems to directly affect people's health, particularly that of older workers.

James Surowiecki

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#82. I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really.

Christopher Eccleston

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#83. It is not the government's purpose to make a profit the way a company does, because a company doesn't have to give a damn about the unemployed poor or provide services that are non-commercial by definition.

Jean Chretien

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#84. punctuality is for the unemployed and the unimportant: flunkies wait, powerful men are waited for.

Ranjeev C Dubey

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#85. I'm a concert pianist, that's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.

Oscar Levant

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#86. Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed.

Vladimir Lenin

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#87. An unemployed jester is nobody's fool.

Danny Kaye

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#88. The poor lack money. They lack money because they do not know the secret of productive wealth. They know it is possible to be old, unemployed, uneducated, lazy - even halt, deaf, dumb, and blind-and still be excessively rich. But you have to be in on the secret, and the poor by definition are not.

Louis O. Kelso

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#89. I remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking my voice mail on pay phones, hoping for an audition.

Rainn Wilson

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#90. Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat.

Lucille Kallen

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#91. Millions of Americans are either underemployed or unemployed.

Mario Diaz-Balart

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#92. Do you have any problems, other than that you're unemployed, a moron, and a dork?

John McEnroe

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#93. The illegal immigrants who have taken jobs that should go to people here legally, while over 20 percent of Americans are currently unemployed or underemployed.

Donald J. Trump

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#94. I was unemployed for a long time, but I couldn't adjust to the hours.

Ashleigh Brilliant

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#95. Like most great revolutionaries he could thrive only in evil times, at first when the masses were unemployed, hungry and desperate, and later when they were intoxicated by

William L. Shirer

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#96. Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.

Prince Philip

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#97. Night was coming on in, borrowing the light. It had started out borrowing just a few cents worth of the light, but now it was borrowing thousands of dollars worth of the light every second. The light would soon be gone, the bank closed, the tellers unemployed, the bank president a suicide.

Richard Brautigan

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#98. Those who defend the right to life of the weakest among us must be equally visable in support of the quality of life of the powerless among us: the old and the young, the hungry and the homeless, the undocumented immigrant and the unemployed worker.

Joseph Bernardin

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#99. Boys are lacking in female skills, dropping out of schools and ending up in jails and unemployed because they lack these skills.

Gillian Armstrong

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#100. If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work.

Henry Ford

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