"If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it."

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We don't consider manual work as a curse, or a bitter necessity, not even as a means of making a living. We consider it as a high human function, as the basis of human life, the most dignified thing in the life of the human being, and which ought to be free, creative. Men ought to be proud of it.

— David Ben-Gurion