Quotes with labor-saving

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  • Richard Cobden Luck relies on chance, labor on character.
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  • Karl Marx Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Wernher von Braun Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
    Wernher von Braun
    German-American rocket scientist and scientist (1912 - 1977)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Monorail tracks are prefabricated and can be erected relatively quickly: Simply dig a hole every 120 feet or so, plop down a column, and lift the track into place. Because the systems operate above traffic, collisions with errant motorists are never an issue. The trains are automated, saving millions in labor costs in the long run.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Billy Bragg Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Beverly Johnson My husband was just OK looking. I was in labor and I said to him, 'What if she's ugly? You're ugly.
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  • Carol Bellamy New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • John Ruskin No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Benjamin Harrison No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor.
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • Randolph Churchill No statesmen ever will find it worth his pains, to tax our labor and excise our brain.
    Randolph Churchill
    British journalist and writer (1911 - 1968)
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  • Robert Hayden Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.
    Robert Hayden
    American poet, essayist, and educator (1913 - 1980)
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  • Angela Davis Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Boris Pasternak Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding, rendered speechless by emotion!
    Doctor Zhivago
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Victor Hugo One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Alexander Pope One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Thomas Arnold One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
    Thomas Arnold
    English educator and historian (1795 - 1842)
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  • Allan Bloom Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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