Margot Lee Shetterly

For too long, history has imposed a binary condition on its black citizens: either nameless or renowned, menial or exceptional, passive recipients of the forces of history or superheroes who acquire mythic status not just because of their deeds but because of their scarcity.

American Writer

Lady Colin Campbell

I believe that narcissistic personality disorder is a middle- and upper-class disease because you have to have the means to indulge it; you need money and power. Narcissists create havoc around them. You can't get away with that doing a menial job.

British Writer

Richard Flanagan

You can be very successful but still struggling financially, and it looked like I'd have to take a year or two off and find whatever menial labouring work you can get as a middle-aged, unskilled bald man.

Australian Novelist

Eugene V. Debs

Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.

American Politician

Robin Wright

If there's nothing for me to do as an actress, then that's frustrating. I'd rather go work at a menial labour job, where I can actually get my hands dirty.

American Actress

Victoria Coren Mitchell

I'm convinced we go to school at the wrong time. I'd have been delighted, aged 12, to get out into the world and earn some money doing something menial.

English Writer

Richard C. Armitage

I did quite a lot of menial jobs. I was a waiter, an inventory clerk touring round properties listing cups and saucers, and a laserquest marshal.

British Actor

Eric Braeden

To support my brothers and me, my mother got a job so menial that we never discussed it.

American Actor

Darin Strauss

I've had menial jobs, and 'professional writer' isn't one of them.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

American Judge

Menial indicates a job is not highly respected or valued in society.

Low Prestige

'Menial' often suggests that the job requires little specialized skill or education.

Skill Level

People typically use 'menial' for jobs they don't aspire to; it can sound dismissive.

Not Aspirational

As a noun, a 'menial' is a person in a job with low social status.

Lower Status

Menials often work in service roles, typically assisting with everyday tasks.

Service Role

Some may take pride in being a menial, appreciating their role's importance.

Personal Perspective

 I felt for years that the climate crisis is the defining challenge of our generation, and here I was, ready to play my part and do something for humanity. But I put my hands on the levers of control that I'd been given and pulled them, and nothing happened. I realized the things I could control were menial day-to-day things.

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 and it's where we get the word harmony. Music was used as a form of medicine to treat illnesses and physical complaints, as a vital accompaniment to sporting contests, and as a means to keep workers in time as they toiled away on monotonous or menial tasks. One of the most important applications

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 have sent in advance habitation with radiation shelters you won't use an astronaut to do something as quote-unquote menial as building a habitat final precursors will be an army of robots and they'll begin to build habitats I think about the technology we're developing today in 3d

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 As a young woman, I was in a psychiatric hospital on three different occasions for lengthy periods. My doctors diagnosed me with chronic schizophrenia, and gave me a prognosis of "grave." That is, at best, I was expected to live in a board and care, and work at menial jobs.

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 an innocent, loving and lovable kid who was always eager to please. He was poor. And boys like him did menial tasks in the camp. And he seemed happy enough, but I couldn't help wonder -- his parents must have missed him dearly.

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 as menial as I was as they were but what I didn't like is having the boss I didn't like a single boss they ever worked for and so at 23 I borrowed a thousand dollars from my boyfriend at the diner where I worked as a waitress

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 robots but has often portrayed them as one-dimensional fully good or fully evil early sci-fi robots sometimes tried to destroy humanity but often they were helpful assistants doing menial chores for humans topics a buddy

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 And then, after 21, they went to something called sheltered workshops with menial work and earning either nothing or below minimum wage. So I understood discrimination. My parents understood discrimination.

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 one-dimensional fully good or fully evil early sci-fi robots sometimes tried to destroy humanity but often they were helpful assistants doing menial chores for humans carpet's a bit dirty leave it

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 Today, I'm going to talk about AI and us. AI researchers have always said that we humans do not need to worry, because only menial jobs will be taken over by machines. Is that really true?