Labor Quotes
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Labor is the law of happiness.
Abel Stevens
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Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.
Epictetus
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There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.
Abraham Lincoln
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Labor never quits. We never give up the fight - no matter how tough the odds, no matter how long it takes.
George Meany
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All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.
John Calvin
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Then are they truly monks when they live by the labor of their hands.
Benedict of Nursia
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In any service where a couple hold down jobs as a team, the male generally takes his ease while the wife labors at his job as wellas her own.
Anita Loos
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My entire pregnancy with Major, I was nervous about enduring another long labor.
Eva Amurri
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Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.
Anandamayi Ma
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Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.
William Butler Yeats
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The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.
William H. Seward
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Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.
Abraham Lincoln
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I know of no such thing as genius, genius is nothing but labor and diligence.
William Hogarth
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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.
William Jennings Bryan
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All wealth is the product of labor.
John Locke Nazareth
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The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.
Vincent Van Gogh
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
William Faulkner
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Neoliberalism has taken new forms since the demise of the Fordist concept of labor and with the emergence of what is understood as flexible labor. This has really come to be the dominant form for about the last 20 years.
Judith Butler
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Here is a guy who's supposed to be the Genghis Khan of the church, the pro-choice people hate him, and I don't know about his labor background so I figured there must be more to him, and there is. I wrote a book about John Cardinal O'Connor.
Nat Hentoff
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Slaving gave rise to a division of labor.
Eric Wolf
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We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
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I worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week for years. Being a comic book artist is like sentencing yourself to life imprisonment at hard labor in solitary confinement. I don't think I'd do it again.
Wally Wood
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This In Friendship - out of it came certain connections with the liberal labor establishment. Among the personalities that were involved were Bayard Rustin and a person from the American Jewish Congress, Stanley Levinson.
Ella Baker
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Writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.
Alice Childress