Employed Quotes

• If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

  W. Clement Stone

  Time, Destiny, Thinking

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• The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season.

  Martin Van Buren

  Military, Army, Past

  Martin Van Buren (2018). “State of the Union Addresses of Martin van Buren”, p.40, BoD – Books on Demand

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• This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.

  Albert Claude

  Cells, Technique, Brutality

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• Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Different, Benefits, Maintaining

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub

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• No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Government, Atheism, Belief

  Jeremy Bentham (1843). “The Works of Jeremy Bentham”, p.92

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• There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.

  Richard Nelson Bolles

  Country, Work, Long

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• Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.

  Andrew Jackson

  Spring, Historical, Benefits

  Andrew Jackson (1837). “Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life”, p.437

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• Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.

  Margery Allingham

  Men, High Heels, Blood

  Margery Allingham (2015). “The Tiger in the Smoke”, p.113, Ipso Books

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• A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

  Edith Sitwell

  Sarcastic, Reading, Writing

  "Writers on Writing". Book edited by Jon Winokur, 1986.

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• FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.

  Felix Adler

  Long, Community, Prejudice

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• Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Wisdom, Ambition, Virtue

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• I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce.

  Joseph Hume

  Agriculture, Giving, Branches

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• It's almost like while you are working for the WWF everything is fine and good, but if you are no longer employed by them they want you to just drop off the face of the earth and it's like you never existed.

  Jerry Lawler

  Earth, Want, Faces

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• Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.

  Charles Babbage

  Country, Tuscany, Genius

  Charles Babbage, Peter Mark Roget (1989). “Reflections on the decline of science in England and on some of its causes: with a new appendix of correspondence by Charles Babbage & Peter M. Roget from the Philosophical magazine”

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• Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.

  Romano Prodi

  Vaccines, Rich, Poor

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• Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.

  Arthur Keith

  War, Mean, Imagination

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• People who are employed in a way they don't like - my heart cries for them.

  Fred L. Turner

  Heart, People, Way

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• Oh yeah, I'm still employed at Pixar and I love it here.

  Brad Bird

  Pixar, Yeah, Stills

  Interview with Andy Patrizio, www.ign.com. March 9, 2005.

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• My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.

  Francis Asbury

  Soul, My Soul

  Francis Asbury (1821). “The Journal of the Rev. Francis Asbury, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church: From August 7, 1771, to December 7, 1815”, p.266

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• Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.

  Elliott Carter

  Order, Silence, Movement

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• Although I insist that God has always had the power to intervene directly in nature to create new forms, I am willing to be per-suaded that He chose not to do so and instead employed secondary natural causes like random mutation and natural selection.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Mutation, Causes, Natural

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• Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Meaningful, Expression, Ordinary

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• All forces are a deterrent to and would be employed in a general war. Most of our forces could be employed in a limited war, if required

  Thomas S. Gates, Jr.

  War, Would Be, Force

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• My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

  George Washington

  4th Of July, Two, Political

  George Washington (1836). “The writings of George Washington: being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes, and illustrations”, p.301

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• The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.

  James Hutton

  Science, Past, History

  "Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh". Book published by Royal Society of Edinburgh, "Theory of the Earth", 1785.

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