Abraham Lincoln  - Quotes

 If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool. 

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John Wooden  - Quotes

 Don't mistake activity with achievement. 

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Al Gore  - Quotes

 We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift. 

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Francis Of Assisi  - Quotes

 He who works with his hands is a laborer.

He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.

He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.
 

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Mother Jones  - Quotes

 I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.  

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Christopher Hitchens  - Quotes

 Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should have talked before I dared to write it. I never launch any little essay without the hope 

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Helen Keller  - Quotes

 Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much 

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Voltaire  - Quotes

 ...work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice and need. 

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Edmund Morris  - Quotes

 Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital. 

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John Locke  - Quotes

 ...but since He gave it them for their benefit and the greatest conveniences of life they were capable to draw form it, it cannot be supposed He meant it should always remain common and uncultivated. He gave it to the use of the industrious and rational (and labour was to be his title to it)... 

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Voltaire  - Quotes

 labour keeps us from three great evils--boredom, vice, and want. 

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Anatole France  - Quotes

 Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.  

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Jodi Picoult  - Quotes

 She'd been in labor for nineteen hours; I completely understood why she wanted to pass the buck. 'You are so beautiful,' her husband crooned, holding up her shoulders.



'You are so full of shit,' Lila snarled, but as a contraction settled over her like a net, she bore down and pushed.
 

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