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Quotations regarding 'Labor'

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A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.
Annie Dillard, American Author (1945-  )
Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.
John Gregory Dunne, American Writer (1932-2003)
Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses.
Walter Duranty, American Journalist
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
Thomas A. Edison, American Inventor (1847-1931)
A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
William Faulkner, American Novelist (1897-1962)
Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.
John Florio, English Writer
The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played a large part in the sweeping victory he won at the polls.
John T. Flynn, American Critic
No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.
Steve Forbes, American Businessman (1947-  )
Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
Gene Fowler, American Journalist (1890-1960)
Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them.
David Frost, English Journalist (1939-  )
The increased global linkages promote economic growth in the world through two key mechanisms: the division of labor and the international spillovers of knowledge.
Toshihiko Fukui, Japanese Public Servant (1935-  )
The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.
John Kenneth Galbraith, American Economist (1908-2006)
Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor.
Elton Gallegly, American Politician (1944-  )
Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.
Henry George, American Economist (1839-1897)
Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.
Henry George, American Economist (1839-1897)
The most popular labor-saving device is still money.
Phyllis George, American Journalist (1949-  )
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
W. L. George, English Writer
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
Andre Gide, French Novelist (1869-1951)
The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American Writer (1860-1935)
What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.
Arnold H. Glasow, -
 
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