John Ruskin Quotes
No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.
Quotes to Explore
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The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
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I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.
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The process of discovery in my field is very incremental. But there are moments when you realize you know something about the world nobody else knows. That's extraordinarily exhilarating.
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Exercise is labor without weariness.
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Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses.
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There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.
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I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
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But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.
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Sex is a discovery.
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The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
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Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding oneself in one of life's critical situations need not after all respond in one of the traditional ways. No. One may simply default. Pass. Do as one pleases, shrug, turn on one's heel and leave. Exit. Why after all need one act humanly?
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Enforcement efforts should focus on aggressive prosecution of bad actors under existing anti-fraud laws rather than imposing costly and largely ineffective procedural requirements on all public companies.
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They worked hard to not give labor a dedicated slot today.
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Love is a sudden revelation: a kiss is always a discovery.
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[X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the desire to domesticate time (cinema), to preserve and capture the surface of the fleeting (photography), to see inside (x-ray).
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Food was a labor of love you felt by cooking it and eating it.
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Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class, but the working man respects the bourgeoisie and wants to be a bourgeoisie. Marx never got a hold of him for a moment. It was the revolting sons of the bourgeoisie itself, like myself, that painted the flag red. The middle and upper classes are the revolutionary element in society. The proletariat is the conservative element.
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If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its branches.
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No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.
