Eight Hour Quotes
13 quotes by 13 authors
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I knew from experience of the past that this butchering of people was done for the express purpose of defeating the eight-hour movement.
— August Spies
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I am wondering what would have happened to me if some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced…
— Thomas A. Edison
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You think people can work all day and then pick up their kids at child care or wherever and get home and still manage to…
— Howard Dean
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Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of transcendent achievement. Few…
— B. C. Forbes
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Christian socialismâ€). This is a difficult concept for modern liberals to grasp because they are used to thinking of the progressives as the people who…
— Jonah Goldberg
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Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica.
— J. G. Ballard
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In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like…
— Iain Banks
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It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days…
— Anthony Doerr
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I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was…
— David Mamet
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I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron…
— Evita Peron
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You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.
— Robert Smith
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How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting…
— Studs Terkel
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When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I…
— Michael Birch
Who Wrote These Eight Hour Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 13 Eight Hour Quotes as follows: