Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
The free mind, unafraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.
Facilis descensus Averno Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras Hoc opus labor est
We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.
Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
I want to have a bunch of kids so I can open a factory and have free labor. Beat that, China!
It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a...
Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.
Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organization of labor.
The price of liberty is labor as well as vigilance.
Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.
That effort to undermine competitive markets is no better in the market for labor than it is for goods and services.
The very best Labor governments in our nation's history distinguished themselves by thinking big and, wherever possible, resisting the temptation to overemphasise short-term political considerations.
Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.
It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation i...
The best recommendation I can have is my own talents, and the fruits of my own labors, and what others will not do for me, I will try and do for myself.
I never thought I would be one of those wacky chicks who say, 'I loved my labor,' but I loved every part of it. It was the best day of my life.
Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.
