Laborious Quotes
63 quotes by 55 authors
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To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
— Winston Churchill
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Such a system would be very, very expensive and laborious to have, given the kinds of border we have. Scientists and engineers aren't even sure…
— Janet Napolitano
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The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in…
— John Lancaster Spalding
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A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
— A A Milne
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A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.
— William Hazlitt
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.
— John Milton
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In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the mind is the…
— Carl Jung
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Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple,…
— Abraham Lincoln
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My child,you are broken. Unless you know that you are broken yourself,it will be severely laborious to love the broken people around you. You will…
— Bo Sanchez
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There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work, as in mathematics, there was…
— J. A. Ratcliffe
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Labor Day is a holiday honoring those who work for a living. Laborious Day is a lesser known holiday honoring those who cannot stop talking…
— Daniel Handler
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...the institutional arrangement whereby most professional economists are heavily burdened with teaching and administrative duties may militate against a sufficient admixture of the more laborious…
— Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod
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By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice and enterprise, it…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them…
— Albert Bandura
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Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not :…
— Thomas Carlyle
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I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green,…
— John Milton
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Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are…
— H. L. Mencken
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The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly…
— Samuel Johnson
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By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect…
— Robert Cialdini
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