Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
William Ellery Channing
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My first love was, and remains, manual labor; sowing and harvesting, the pastures, the flock, and the cattle.
Ariel Sharon
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'Arab Labor' was light, snappy. We got emotional over things, but from a safe place, from the terrace.
Sayed Kashua
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It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
Ashley Montagu
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Women ought to be fully guarded by law in all rights of property, labor, profession, etc.; but, roughly stated, the voting population ought to represent the fighting population.
John Boyle O'Reilly
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In 2013, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, around 64 percent of mothers with children under six worked.
Rebecca Traister
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We can make black lives matter in the labor movement by building the kinds of movements that black women need to shape a new economy and a new democracy that don't force them to choose between making a living and being a part of a healthy democracy.
Alicia Garza
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I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
John D. Rockefeller
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I'm supporting Donald Trump because Donald Trump is against this trade deal, this Trans Pacific Partnership, this job-killing trade deal that is going to bring cheap labor into this country.
Paul Nehlen
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Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.
William Graham Sumner
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Minimum wage law is the 'People's Fed.' Tie minimum wage to money supply. If there is pushback against this idea, then shut down the Fed and its ability to distort the economy, penalizing labor, or make the Fed's distortions available to all businesses and all workers.
Max Keiser
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As industry's tycoons of the Thirties got their wings clipped, labor's leaders in the Eighties are getting their wings clipped. Not because of any class-related antagonism, but because any excess, ultimately, is its own undoing.
Paul Harvey
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Germany has an established and well-furnished Catholicism, often with employed Catholics who handle the church like a labor union. For them, the church is simply the employer.
Pope Benedict XVI
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In antiquity, agriculture and industry depended completely on human labor; but now, with the development of natural forces that human labor cannot match, agriculture and industry have fallen completely into the hands of the capitalists. The greater the amount of capital, the more abundant the resources that can be utilized.
Sun Yat-sen
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Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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I knew that manual labor wasn't the career for me.
James Carville
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To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration.
Paul Theroux
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The globalization that has rescued so many in poor countries has harmed some people in rich countries, as factories and jobs migrated to where labor is cheaper.
Angus Deaton
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Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.
Georg Simmel
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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
Thomas Browne
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China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer to their markets.
Michael Bloomberg
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Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.
Francis Quarles
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In May 2007, congressional Democrats and the Bush administration agreed to a plan to include environmental and international labor standards in upcoming trade agreements.
Nina Easton
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I mean, I really, really love playing solo. Definitely, it's like a labor of love, it's not a huge career. It's not that successful, but it's something I love so much that I'll do it regardless.
Amy Ray
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