Samuel Gompers Quotes

Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.

Samuel Gompers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 27, 1850 - December 13, 1924

Topics

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When I started writing, I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the more confused, and for an artist I think that is quite a good thing: you allow in more of your instinctual self; your dreams, fantasies and memories. It's richer, in a way.

John Banville

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I could easily not act again. It's not a problem.

Mel Gibson

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After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.

Maurice Strong

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By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.

Michael J. Fox

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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

Jean de La Fontaine

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The culture of celebrity has become insane. It's all based on fantasy, and I find it creepy and disturbing.

Sophia Myles

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I think I have an adrenaline addiction, no question about that.

Tom Waits

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My voice is so high-pitched, only gay dogs can hear it.

Ross Mathews

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Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.

Dean Kamen

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I come from a part of New York that was almost entirely immigrants. I was born in America, but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe.

Christopher Walken

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When somebody says, 'This must be a children's book,' basically they're saying, 'You must be a child.' And so my answer is, 'Well, yes, I guess I am a child.' But I don't think of myself that way.

Chris Van Allsburg

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