Quotes with labor

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Bette Davis To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.
    The lonely life: an autobiography
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo To the question how one kind of labor can be measured against another, how the labor of the artisan can be measured against the labor of the artist, how the labor of the strong can be measured against the labor of the weak, the communists can give no answer.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • William Ellery Channing Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Dora Russell We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.
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  • Carol Bellamy We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Arthur C. Brooks We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.
    Arthur C. Brooks
    American social scientist and musician (1964 - )
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  • Angela Davis Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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