Henry Rollins
Musician, Writer, Actor
"I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind."
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Bruce Dickinson
Musician, Author, Pilot
"When I was in employment as a regular line pilot, I used to take unpaid leave to go on tour with Iron Maiden. I got lucky - they let me off"
Paul Ryan
Politician
"If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already."
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment."
Angelina Grimke
Activist
"I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment."
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"Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed."
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"Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man"
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"No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry."
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"To engage in experiments on heat was always one of my most agreeable employments."
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"Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy"
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"We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us."
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"Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him."
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"With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability."
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"Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment."
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"Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good."
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"Employment and hardships prevent melancholy."
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"Diligence in employments of less consequence is the most successful introduction to greater enterprises."
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"Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs."
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"Indolence is stagnation; employment is life."
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"It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment."
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"A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere."
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"As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it."
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"Is it impossible to imagine Americans sneaking into Mexico en masse, seeking regular employment and a better way of life?"
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"Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible. Further, in dealing with certain persons, even if we possessed the most accurate scientific knowledge, we should not find it easy to persuade them by the employment of such knowledge. For scientific discourse is concerned with instruction, but in the case of such persons instruction is impossible."
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"A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it."
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