Today's Quote

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Adventure is just bad planning."
- Roald Amundsen

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When people ask me, ‘Why can’t labor organize the way it did in the thirties?’ the answer is simple: everything we did then is now illegal.
- Thomas Geoghegan
God sells us all things at the price of labor.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Without labor nothing prospers.
- Sophocles
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.
- Abraham Lincoln
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
- Thomas Jefferson
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
- Aristotle
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
- Anatole France
Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built upon the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.
- Albert Einstein
A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.
- Dorothea Dix
A bad day at work is better than a good day in hell.
- Scott Johnson
The Labor Movement; from the folks who brought you the weekend.
- Bumper sticker

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Classic Quotes by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) US writer, scientist, scholar

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

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A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

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A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

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" Love is like exposing your weak side and expecting others not to take advantage of it. When they do, it hurts like hell and you feel it for a long time. Eventually you get over it and see the lessons that were learned in exposing your weak side...."
-Sunburst-

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Write it on your heart that every day is the
best day in the year. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Originally Posted by sunburstlespaulhero1989

" Love is like exposing your weak side and expecting others not to take advantage of it. When they do, it hurts like hell and you feel it for a long time. Eventually you get over it and see the lessons that were learned in exposing your weak side...."
-Sunburst-

Very good quote!

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Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand

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Classic Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) English writer

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.

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And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.

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Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

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I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.

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I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves.

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I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

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I shall live to improve myself, to take care of my child and to render myself worthy to join him. Soon my weary pilgrimage will begin.

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I thought and pondered - vainly. I felt that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull Nothing replies to our anxious invocations.

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"They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse."
- Emily Dickinson

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Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet.
William Butler Yeats