In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
He who would reach the desired goal must, while a boy, suffer and labor much and bear both heat and cold. [Lat.,… — Horace Copy Share Image
In an economy increasingly dominated by network effects, peer-to-peer transactions, self-regulation, and contract labor, the old frameworks are woefully irrelevant. — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If you would make a man happy, study not to augment his goods; but to diminish his wants. One of the greatest… — Orestes Brownson Copy Share Image
Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor;… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
In order to improve maternal health, we have to focus on improving all women's health and access to care - not just… — Leana S. Wen Copy Share Image
The scholar may be sure that he writes the tougher truth for the calluses on his palms. They give firmness to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Private sector labor market flows provide additional indications of the strength of the labor market. For example, the quits rate has tended… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
I have little space from the suffering of elephants right now. I wake up with it and go to sleep with it.… — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
Every single one cabinet appointment: education, environment, labor - every single one is selected to undermine any aspect of government that's of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Now, apparently strengthened as by a new spirit, with "might in the inner man," he labored with renewed energy and zeal; and… — Christmas Evans Copy Share Image
What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
One of the primary questions in a state-church arrangement is, 'which controls which?' . . . In Norway, for example, the liberal… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labor. As matters stand, their only common… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America. More specifically, Barack Obama is the president of a congenitally racist… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
You know, people have tried to make out there is a split between environmentalism and labor over the years. And if that… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
If capital produces most of the economy's wealth and income is distributed on the basis of productive input, the individual can hardly… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission is as certain of… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
When I was with the Labor Party, I'd get into trouble because the party bosses determined that some of what I wrote,… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
The mayor has got to work closely with a wide variety of people, his city council, state legislature, governor, business community, labor… — Marc Morial Copy Share Image
A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to… — William Booth Copy Share Image
“He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He… — Saint Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
I did six internships, even though I was only allowed to do one. I had a paper with my advisor's signature on… — Grace Helbig Copy Share Image
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life; and as… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Go home now,” says I. “Keep away from the saloons. Save your money. You are going to need it.” “What are we… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
If you define yourself as someone fixing education, there's nothing short-range you can do to fix education directly. It's labor intensive. You… — Deborah Meier Copy Share Image
As in labor, the more one doth exercise, the more one is enabled to do, strength growing upon work; so with the… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
One of the most powerful insights in economics is this idea of a division of labor. You do the thing you're good… — Paul Romer Copy Share Image
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached… — Robert Hayden Copy Share Image
I'm proud to be Secretary of Labor. But I'm even prouder of two more important titles: dad and husband. I've been able… — Thomas Perez Copy Share Image