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21 " This false appearance distinguishes wages labour from other historical forms of labour. On the basis of the wages system even the unpaid labour seems to be paid labour. With the slave, on the contrary, even that part of his labour which is paid appears to be unpaid. Of course, in order to work the slave must live, and one part of his working day goes to replace the value of his own maintenance. But since no bargain is struck between him and his master, and no acts of selling and buying are going on between the two parties, all his labour seems to be given away for nothing. "
― Karl Marx , Wage-Labour and Capital/Value, Price and Profit
22 " Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for. "
― Virginia Woolf , A Room of One's Own
23 " We were awfully poor. But we had a lot of things that money can't buy . . . like unpaid bills. "
24 " I suspect the real reason the N.F.L. and N.B.A. don't want high schoolers and college underclassmen to play with their ball is that they don't want to jeopardize their relationship with National Collegiate Athletic Association, which serves as a sort of free minor league and unpaid promotional department for the pros. "