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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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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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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Stand in your own truth and you will command respect.
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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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Why, man of idleness, labor has rocked you in the cradle, and nourished your pampered life; without it, the woven silk and the wool upon your bank would be in the shepherd's fold. For the meanest thing that ministers to human want, save the air of heaven, man is indebted to toil; and even the air, in God's wise ordination, is breathed with labor.
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There is no role in a war unless the parties are exhausted. These parties are not exhausted. They are still on a triumphal path. They are not on a coalition path. It's an either/or death struggle. They don't understand that the death is ongoing right now and could take several cycles for the corpse to be autopsied. I hope you use this - this should put your paper on the map. Everybody should read it.
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I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.
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You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.
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I'm not shy, but I have a job to do. I don't need the notoriety.
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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.
