trade

Giving a piece of your life daily through employment makes you empty

Villainessa Tittel was a hired killer, an assassin by trade. She had enjoyed the best education and had been trained by assassins who had (until then at least) been considered the best in the business. She had turned to __leaning_ as an occupation because she really enjoyed endings more than beginnings _ and anyway, she didn__ need to know her mark__ entire pedigree or life__ story, or to have some kind of facetious moral justification just to collect her fee. Unsurprisingly, when she did read _ on those rare occasions _ her books were always dog-eared from the back.

To work (at a job) is to sacrifice the life you have at the moment

In a job you trade your freedom and time for money.

The problems on campus life today are not about free speech. They are about how the students have absolutely nothing to do with their lives but sit and listen to lectures, find the best parties to attend, and otherwise discover first-world problems to stew about and protest. That's the root of the problem. This is not a commercial environment where people are incentivized to find value in each other. Campuses have become completely artificial 4-year holding tanks for infantilized kids with zero experience in actual life in which people find ways to get along. These students are not serving each other in a market exchange, and very few have worked at day in their lives, so their default is to find some offense and protest. It's all they've been taught to do and all they know how to do. Idle hands and parents' money = trouble.

Knowledge was scattered treasure, education organized it into art, commerce and science.

My trade and art is to live.

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

There is no friendship in trade.

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.

Trade is a communication of cultures and values.

I'm cool with my body, I love my body. I wouldn't trade it for no other body.

Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.

War is the trade of Kings.

Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both