Quotes with labor-time

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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Bertrand Russell Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
    Contemplation and Action, 1902-14
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bea Arthur But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.
    Bea Arthur
    American actress and comedian (1922 - 2009)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Lewis Mumford By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Charles Wadsworth By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
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  • Pete Holiday Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope.
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  • Bill Bryson Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Come what come may,
    time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
    Macbeth (1605)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bob Mayer Completing any writing project, particularly a novel, is a daunting prospect. Many people become frozen by the prospect. Others keep waiting for the right time. Some wait for the spark of inspiration. Even experienced writers find it is easier to do anything other than actually write.
    Bob Mayer
    American author (1959 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Controlled time is our true wealth.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Al Sharpton During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Vaclav Havel Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Carlos Ghosn Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie Every time a child says, ''I don't believe in fairies,'' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Will Rogers Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Al Jourgensen Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.
    Al Jourgensen
    Cuban-American singer-songwriter, musician (1958 - )
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