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    The workers asked only for bread and a shortening of the long hours of toil. The agitators gave them visions. The police gave them clubs.

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I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will read more

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

by Benjamin Harrison Found in: Labor Quotes,
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Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.

by Ralph Ransom Found in: Labor Quotes, Reward Quotes,
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How blest is he who crowns in shades like these,
A youth of labour with an age of ease.

How blest is he who crowns in shades like these,
A youth of labour with an age of ease.

by Oliver Goldsmith Found in: Labor Quotes,
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I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living read more

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

by John D. Rockefeller Found in: Labor Quotes,
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For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial
of the equal right to the use read more

For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial
of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial
of the labor to its own produce.

by Henry George Found in: Labor Quotes,
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There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those
who take the credit. Try to read more

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those
who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less
competition there.

by Thomas Fuller Found in: Labor Quotes,
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He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands.
[Lat., Qui orat laborat, cor levat read more

He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands.
[Lat., Qui orat laborat, cor levat ad Deum cum manibus.]

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Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go read more

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!

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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed read more

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

by Abraham Lincoln Found in: Labor Quotes,
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