Employed Quotes

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In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal which made their… — Samuel Adams
GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. — Ambrose Bierce
From earliest childhood the boy was accustomed to feel that, for him, life was double. Winter and summer, town and country, law and liberty, were… — Henry Adams
HOLLY TREE (Ilex aquifolium) is a symbol of good will and is associated with sun gods. In Rome the holly was sacred to Saturn and… — Raven Grimassi
Ages employed in making history have no time for studying it. — Solomon Schechter
Even the word depression itself was the terminological product of an effort to soften the connotation of deep trouble. In the last century, the term… — John Kenneth Galbraith
There isn't a single day I don't do some writing -- if you don't, you won't have a book. When you're self-employed it is very… — Charles de Lint
It is not part of the functions of the national government to find employment for people and if we were to appropriate a hundred millions… — James A. Garfield
[L]ife, individual or collective, personal or historic, is the one entity in the universe whose substance is compact of danger, of adventure. It is, in… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
No word in our language not even "Socialism" has been employed more loosely than " Mysticism ." ... The history of the word begins in… — William Ralph Inge
Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such… — Charles Caleb Colton
Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid conscription into his… — James Ellis
The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor… — Karl Marx
Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly employed… — Thomas Frank
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. — David Friedman
I started working when I was very young. I got an agent when I was 12, and fortunately was employed consistently from that point on.… — Claire Danes
When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy,… — J D Hayworth
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is… — Elbert Hubbard
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. — St. Jerome

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