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“All trades, arts, and handiwork have gained by division of labor, namely, when, instead of one man doing everything, each confines himself to a… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“The division of labour, however, so far as it can be introduced, occasions, in every art, a proportionable increase of the productive powers of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“It is not the tailor alone who is the ninth part of a man; it is as much the preacher, and the merchant, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“[I]n any profession the highest order of work is achieved, not by fussy empirical demands for 'something to be done,' but by patient study… — Henry Whitehead Copy Share Image
“And in the course of this work I shall touch upon the cause of the difference of the covenants on the one hand, and,… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
“In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Who knows but if men constructed their dwellings with their own hands, and provided food for themselves and families simply and honestly enough, the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The effects of the division of labour, in the general business of society, will be more easily understood by considering in what manner it… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“The separation between the Man of Labour and the Instruments of Labout once established, such a state of things will maintain itself and reproduce… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Nothing tends to materialise man, and to deprive his work of the faintest trace of mind, more than extreme division of labour.” — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“The train slows and lengthens, as we approach London, the centre, and my heart draws out too, in fear, in exaltation. I am about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword. On one side all is correct, definite, orderly; the paths… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he woke with a brain like lead; at others it was as if a thousand wax tapers were alight and people were throwing… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life -… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To follow the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
