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Labor
«Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.»
Author: Bishop Desmond Tutu
(Novelist, Spiritual leader)
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Labor
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abundant, Africa, buttress, buttresses, buttressing, invest, South, South Africa, systems, vicious
«Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.»
Author: Mary Ellen Chase
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Fathers,
Labor
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decent, manual, straightened, straightening, straightens, straighten out, straighten up
«The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor»
«Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.»
Author: Adam Smith
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Labor,
Money
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labour, originally, purchase, purchased, silver
«Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Labor,
Moderation
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appetite, excess, indulging, physicians, prevents, sharpens, temperance
«The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
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Happiness,
Labor,
Life
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in labor
«Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
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God,
Labor
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All Good Things
«Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it»
«Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.»
Author: Thomas Merton
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Conscience,
Fidelity,
Heroism,
Labor,
Peace,
Purity,
Sacrifice,
Truth,
War
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fidelities, fidelity, heroic, heroism, purity