She was willing a little bit of sweated labour, incapable of betraying the slogan of her slavers, that since the customer or sucker was paying for his gutrot ten times what it cost to produce and five times what it cost to fling in his face, it was only reasonable to defer to his complaints up to but not exceeding fifty per cent of his exploitation. Samuel Beckett
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  2. No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear. - Greg Kincaid

  3. Be a worthy worker and work will come. - Amit Kalantri

  4. Childbirth is normal until proven otherwise. - Peggy Vincent

  5. It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor. - Ina May Gaskin

More Quotes By Samuel Beckett
  1. You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.

  2. The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.

  3. No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

  4. The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

  5. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

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