Labor Quotes
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Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.
John Ruskin
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A.J. Muste was from Michigan and he grew up in the Dutch Reform Church there, which is a fairly strict church. He later came to New York. He was the minister of a labor temple in the - on the East Side. Then he founded, to my knowledge, the first, maybe the only, labor school; that is, Cornell has a labor department and other schools. But this was a school for - entirely for labor organizers, and he was the - the chairman.
Nat Hentoff
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Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing the most durable monuments. It has opened the domain of matter and the empire of the mind. The wild beast has fled before it, and the wilderness has fallen back.... its triumphal march is the progress of civilization.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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It was the fall into history that enslaved us to the labor cycle, to the agricultural cycle. And notice how fiendish it is.
Terence McKenna
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Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?
Thomas Carlyle
