Quotes with shovel

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• Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

  J. A. Dever
   
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• The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.

  Elbert Hubbard
  American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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• The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car… a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.

  Ben Sweetland
  American psychologist and author
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• You don't fight a war with words, but with fortifications. The pickaxe and the shovel are as important at the rifle. I can't say it often enough.

  Interview (3 October 1936), as quoted in Durruti in the Spanish Revolution (1996) by Abel Paz, as translated by Chuck W. Morse (2007), p. 537

  Buenaventura Durruti
  Spanish insurrectionary, anarcho-syndicalist militant (1896 - 1936)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• fortifications
• abundance
• important
• teaspoon
• pickaxe
• little

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