Quotes with labor

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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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  • Thomas à Kempis Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Sri Anandamayi Ma Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.
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  • Abraham Lincoln Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Francis Quarles Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • Plutarch Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • C. Wright Mills S a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols.
    Source: White Collar :The American Middle Classes (1951)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Thomas Otway Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.
    Thomas Otway
    English dramatist (1652 - 1685)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • William Howard Taft Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
    William Howard Taft
    American politician, judge and President of the United States (1857 - 1930)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it as earned.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Albert Speer Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941.
    Albert Speer
    German architect and Minister of Armaments during WWII (1905 - 1981)
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  • Brigham Young The biggest labor problem is tomorrow.
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Campbell Newman The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.
    Campbell Newman
    Australian politician (1963 - )
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  • George Orwell The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Luc de Clapiers The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.
    Luc de Clapiers
    French writer and moralist
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  • Virgil The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view the cheerful skies; in this, the task and mighty labor lies.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Albert Camus The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Bill Murray The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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