Eugene V. Debs Quotes
What can Labor do for itself? The answer is not difficult. Labor can organize, it can unify; it can consolidate its forces. This done, it can demand and command.
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The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time – but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.
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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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Exercise is labor without weariness.
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We're closer to HBO than we are to the entire grid of cable on demand.
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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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An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up his sensibilities.
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The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand.
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Maybe we'll understand more about how the universe came to be, and what forces drove it in the early days and which forces drive it now.
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A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them.
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Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
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We should live and labor in our time that what came to us as a seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom, may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress.
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Those who have been too long at their labor, who have drunk too long at the cup of voluptuousness, who feel they have become temporarily inhumane, who are tormented by their families, who find life sad and love ephemeral......they should all eat chocolate and they will be comforted.
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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
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The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.
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Almost every profession I look at where you require human labor or you require intelligence, I see computers being able to do better than us within the next 10 years. I'm talking about a mass replacement of humans with artificial intelligence and robots.
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If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.
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Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.
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This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.
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I have complete faith in the continued absurdity of whatever’s going on.
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True love is doing what is good for a person. False love is doing only that which causes that person to love you more.
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A governor can be a very good friend to people. A governor can be a formidable force.
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What can Labor do for itself? The answer is not difficult. Labor can organize, it can unify; it can consolidate its forces. This done, it can demand and command.
