Quotes with livelihood

  • People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.
  • As the band got more successful, it was increasingly difficult to get people to take a risk with something that might jeopardize their livelihood. [On Genesis]
  • But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.

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  • Billy Mays My voice, my likeness is my livelihood. That's it. I keep it simple. I pick good products.
    Billy Mays
    American television direct-response advertisement salesperson (1958 - 2009)
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  • Arthur Capper A boy or girl who has gone through the eight grades should possess a complete, practical education and should have received special training in some specific line of work, fitting him or her to earn a livelihood.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Claude D. Pepper Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.
    Claude D. Pepper
    American politician of the Democratic Party (1900 - 1989)
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  • Peter Gabriel As the band got more successful, it was increasingly difficult to get people to take a risk with something that might jeopardize their livelihood. [On Genesis]
    Peter Gabriel
    British musician, composer and songwriter (born 1950) (1950 - )
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  • Anita Roddick But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Hippocrates I swear... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
    Hippocrates
    Greek physician (460 - 377)
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  • Hitopadesa Learning is a livelihood.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Bertrand Russell Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Nelson Algren The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.
    Nelson Algren
    American writer (1909 - 1981)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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