Quotes with labor-saving

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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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  • 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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  • Brooks Atkinson There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labor. As matters stand, their only common interest is that of cutting each other's throat.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Bill Cosby There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley There is no real wealth but the labor of man.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bill Cosby There's no labor a man can do that's undignified - if he does it right.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Britt Ekland Think of your pension and start saving. Like my father, I have been a spendthrift, and I regret that.
    Britt Ekland
    Swedish actress and singer (1942 - )
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  • Richard of Saint Victor This gift is from God and not of man's deserving. But certainly no one ever receives such a great grace without tremendous labor and burning desire.
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  • Lord George Byron This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Cyril Connolly Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Bernard Mandeville Those who get their living by their daily labor... have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but their wants which it is a prudence to relieve, but folly to cure.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Though President Grover Cleveland declared Labor Day a national holiday in 1894, the occasion was first observed on Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Victor Hugo Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • William Butler Yeats To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Samuel Johnson To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • William Blake To create a little flower is the labor of ages.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Bette Davis To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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