Employed Quotes
344 quotes by 286 authors
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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's,…
— Charles Babbage
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The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on…
— Charles Babbage
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest…
— Felix Adler
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When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed,…
— David Brainerd
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Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'
— Alton Brown
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The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
— Joseph Butler
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The rule for effective governance is simple. It is one Ronald Reagan knew by heart. And one that he successfully employed with Social Security and…
— Chris Christie
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Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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what is wanting to restore us to our station among our confederates? not more money from the people. enough has been raised by them, and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity.
— Sun Tzu
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Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book is not truly…
— Janet Morris
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The army from Asia introduced a foreign luxury to Rome; it was then the meals began to require more dishes and more expenditure . .…
— Livy
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If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
— W. Clement Stone
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(Whispered to a novice while standing in front of the convent library) Oh! I would have been sorry to have read all those books...If I…
— Therese of Lisieux
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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
— Edith Sitwell
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There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress…
— Samuel Johnson
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No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
— Samuel Johnson
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What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works…
— Benjamin Franklin
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From a comparative perspective, the United States is unusual if not unique in the lack of restraints on freedom of expression. It is also unusual…
— Noam Chomsky
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Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water.…
— Carl Sagan
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