Quotes with labor-making

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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Enid Bagnold The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.
    Enid Bagnold
    British writer, playwright (1889 - 1981)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Campbell Brown The president has been more than willing to challenge the National Rifle Association, but that is like a Republican president standing up to labor unions - not a move that risks anything with his core supporters. Mr. Obama could show some real bravery by taking on Hollywood.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Colombian writer (1927 - 2014)
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  • Karl Marx The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Jonathan Swift The reason why so few marriages are happy, is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Eileen Caddy The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.
    Eileen Caddy
    Scottisch spiritual teacher (1917 - 2006)
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  • Buzz Aldrin The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and change in some ways the environment here on Earth.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • B. F. Skinner The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called conditioning. In operant conditioning we strengthen an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent.
    Science and Human Behavior
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Winston Churchill The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Betty Friedan The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife - freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Frederic Raphael The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
    Frederic Raphael
    American screenwriter, biographer and writer (1931 - )
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  • Bill Nelson The tragic case of Terri Schiavo in Florida highlights the importance of making our health-care wishes known.
    Bill Nelson
    American attorney and politician (1942 - )
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  • Calvin Harris The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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  • George Mikes The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together, and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science their labor bore fruit.
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