[About Francis Baily] The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
I was certainly not inclined to decriminalise. However, during my time in the unit, as I saw more and more evidence of… — Julian Critchley Copy Share Image
When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
The question Tony Blair should be reflecting on this weekend is having achieved this, having secured his place in the history of… — Robin Cook Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as absolute cost of labour; it is all a matter of comparison. Every one gets the most… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour… — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
We would like to see science and higher education developing here [on the Russian Far East], so that it could become one… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Blair - except at the edges - was a Thatcherite. Brown, in contrast, regarded Thatcherism as something that had to be taken… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
It is the part of a Christian to take care of his own body for the very purpose that, by its soundness… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
There are many issues in the global economy in general and in the western economy as well: population ageing, drop in labour… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons,… — William Hague Copy Share Image
In these difficult times, when tough decisions are required, the differences between Labour and the Tories are becoming much clearer. One party… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people,… — Geoff Hoon Copy Share Image
I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
under a monopolistic economic system the opportunity to earn a living by one's labour comes to be regarded as a privilege instead… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
In populous cities, which are the seat of commerce and manufactures, the middle ranks of inhabitants, who derive their subsistence from the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Generally Labour Legislations are constructively fortified with the goal of revitalizing the socio-economic fabric of the country through their malleable yet firm… — Henrietta Newton Martin Copy Share Image
The labour-power is a commodity , not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
WTO is not the forum for labour standards. Next, the U.S. will argue the time zone difference is an unfair competitive advantage… — Jairam Ramesh Copy Share Image
Actually the royal family were very gracious and good to me. But I also found that the British establishment were never quite… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
One of the jewels in the crown of Labour's time in office was the rescue of the National Health Service. As the… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
What a vast Traffick is drove, what a variety of Labour is performed in the World to the Maintenance of Thousands of… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
I must be allowed to add some explanatory remarks to bring the subject home to reason-to that sluggish reason, which supinely takes… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Therefore, when we find our heart inflamed with love to God, we may know that God hath shined upon our souls in… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
Labour is man's great function, his peculiar distinction, his privilege. Can he not think so? Can he not see, that from being… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme… — Ernest Shackleton Copy Share Image
Internationalism means that we can see into the dark corners of the world, and hold those companies to account when they are… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
In the struggle for the rights of the poor in Central America and other places where globalization is bringing its negative effects,… — Thomas Gumbleton Copy Share Image
These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of New Labour - and Miliband is irredeemably of that species - is that, in the guise of… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Singles needed to come back. And what I tried to do in my online experiment was to change the rules for myself… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
Acting is a great way to make a living, especially when I consider what my alternatives were and probably still are. I… — James Spader Copy Share Image
Sleep, rest of nature, O sleep, most gentle of the divinities, peace of the soul, thou at whose presence care disappears, who… — Ovid Copy Share Image
“Talkatives complain, cry, shout, brag, and are more hysterical about their lives than something else; don’t be a part of that tragedy!… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
The idea that the object of constitutions is not to confirm the predominance of any interest, but to prevent it; to preserve… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image