Quotes with labor-time

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  • Wallace Stevens One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Boris Yeltsin One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.
    Speaking to the press following a postively productive meeting with Bill Clinton (24 October 1995)
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Winston Churchill One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Plautus One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Carl Sagan One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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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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  • Peace Pilgrim One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Henry David Thoreau One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • John Wanamaker One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
    John Wanamaker
    American merchant and religious (1838 - 1922)
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  • Ezra Pound One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Baltasar Gracián One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised, there is nowhere for you to look any more. You can't sit on a night bus and watch it all happen.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Brad Falchuk One of the main pitfalls of any theoretically 'niche' show is that you spend too much time on the 'niche' and not enough time on the 'show.'
    Brad Falchuk
    American television writer, director, and producer (1971 - )
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  • Louis Kronenberger One of the misfortunes of our time is, that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.
    Louis Kronenberger
    American literary critic and novelist (1904 - 1980)
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  • Andrew Cohen One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • John Ruskin One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Bernard Crick One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of economic production, in an attempt to patch up the cracks already appearing from the 'inner contradictions' of such a system.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 5, A Defence Of Politics Against Technology, p
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Bebe Neuwirth One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.
    Bebe Neuwirth
    American actress, singer and dancer (1958 - )
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  • Carlton Cuse One of the things that's, I think, hard in television is that there's a certain sameness to a lot of television because you're working in a very constricted box, and the box is defined by the amount of money you have to spend and the amount of time you have to get ready.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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