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• ...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio is an amazing invention. Yet now that it is here, one suspects that Hitler never could have consolidated his totalitarian control over Germany without its use. One never can tell what hands will reach out to lay hold on scientific gifts, or to what employment they will be put. Ever the old barbarian emerges, destructively using the new civilization.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Science, Hands, Civilization

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1941). “Living under tension: sermons on Christianity today”

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• All television is an advertisement - that's why it exists. It wasn't the art-form first and then the commerce - it was that they could put on entertainment long enough to distract people into looking at products. It's for focusing people on advertising and separating you from money in some way. Some people forget that. The side product is that we get some great eye candy. TV is the best it has ever been right now. I don't have a problem with that since it's what keep us employed.

  Chris Hardwick

  Art, Eye, Long

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• Some people have made a fortune by being employed. Jerry Bruckheimer does not own his content. Warner Bros. owns his shows. They are on CBS, and he makes a fortune.

  Henry Blodget

  People, Doe, Bros

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he still couldn't make me laugh.

  Eddie Murphy

  Past, Years, Laughing

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• There are nineteen words in Yiddish that convey gradations of disparagement, from a mild, fluttery helplessness to a state of downright, irreconcilable brutishness. All of them can be usefully employed to pinpoint the kind of individuals I write about.

  S. J. Perelman

  Writing, Nineteen, Kind

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• In one way an arrow moves, in another way the mind. The mind indeed, both when it exercises caution and when it is employed about inquiry, moves straight onward not the less, and to its object.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Moving, Exercise, Arrows

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.95, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Teacher, Men, Way

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

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• The interests of the employers and the employed are the same nine times out of ten-I will even say ninety-nine times out of ten.

  George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

  Ninety Nine, Employers, Interest

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• I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and that has been paying my bills. Obviously a ''real job'' pays better than most universities will pay, but I've been very happy with this arrangement I get to do whatever I want, and I have no commercial pressures whatsoever doing this.

  Linus Torvalds

  Jobs, Real, Want

  Source: www.ru.j-npcs.org

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• I always try to make everyone mellow down, make sure everybody's happy. The people I have employed have always kind of stayed with us. A lot of people who come to work for you are artists in their own right. And they want to work for you because they want to pick something up.

  Damien Hirst

  Artist, People, Trying

  Interview with Anthony Haden-Guest, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• All jobs are created in direct proportion to the amount of capital employed.

  Adam Smith

  Jobs, Investing, Proportion

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• Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Order, Cases

  Adam Smith (1778). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.390

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• The annual produce of the land and labour of any nation can be increased in its value by no other means, but by increasing either the number of its productive labourers, or the productive powers of those labourers who had before been employed.

  Adam Smith

  Mean, Land, Numbers

  Adam Smith (1864). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.141

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• It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge.

  John Locke

  Lying, Ambition, Littles

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.9

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• While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or in disputes about Hebrew points, Greek particles, or the accent and quantity of the Roman language, the youth of America will be employed in acquiring those branches of knowledge which increase the conveniences of life.

  Benjamin Rush

  Education, Country, Europe

  "Letters".

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• All is made clear,regarding Abraham and Sarah's traversal into Egypt, when we realize what biblicists meant by the term "Egypt." As Ralph Ellis so brilliantly points out, the name Egypt was employed by the composers of the Old Testament to denote Thebes in Lower Egypt. This was the city and region controlled by the adversaries of the Hyksos. It was considered a separate region, with different rulers, gods, customs, and politics. So, it was not the country of Egypt that Abraham visited, but Thebes within Egypt.

  Michael Tsarion

  Country, Egypt, Cities

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• Most people believe they know how they themselves think, how others think too, and even how institutions evolve. But they are wrong. Their understanding is based on folk psychology, the grasp of human nature by common sense ¾ defined (by Einstein) as everything learned to the age of 18 ¾ shot through with misconceptions, and only slightly advanced over ideas employed by the Greek philosophers

  E. O. Wilson

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

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• I'm responsible for a hundred thousand people across Australia as well and I want to keep them gainfully employed. I want to give them opportunity to grow, I want to give them opportunity to develop.

  Ian McLeod

  Opportunity, Australia, People

  "The Observer Effect" with Ellen Fanning, www.sbs.com.au. September 29, 2013.

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• The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  God Love, Barbarism, Sole

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• I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.

  Jules Verne

  Believe, Hydrogen Fuel, Oxygen

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Abandoned”, p.142, Jules Verne

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• It's not that you have jobs on the Internet, but the Internet makes it possible for more people to build their own jobs. What it does is, it erodes the power of institutions. It used to be you needed an institution to have a job. But, if you look at the three of us on this show, I don't think any of us is really employed by an institution. We run our own lives.

  Esther Dyson

  Running, Jobs, Thinking

  "After Banner Decade, Peering in on the Future of Technology". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. January 3, 2010.

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• The question is: Would there be a market in Germany for certain types of employment if one were to allow the employed person to earn less than is necessary to maintain his standard of living?

  Angela Merkel

  Germany, Employment, Type

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• The DOJ has employed these investigations in communities across our nation to reform serious patterns and practices of force, biased policing and other unconstitutional practices by law enforcement. I'm asking the Department of Justice to investigate if our police department has engaged in a pattern or practice of stops, searches or arrests that violate the Fourth Amendment.

  Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

  Law, Practice, Justice

  "Source: Justice Department to investigate Baltimore police" by Dana Ford, www.cnn.com. May 7, 2015.

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• The framers of the constitution employed words in their natural sense; and, where they are plain and clear, resort to collateral aids to interpretation is unnecessary, and cannot be indulged in to narrow or enlarge the text; but where there is ambiguity or doubt, or where two views may well be entertained, contemporaneous and subsequent practical construction is entitled to the greatest weight.

  Melville Fuller

  Two, Views, Law

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• Bob Bly is among the most accomplished self-employed copywriters in recent years.

  Steve Slaunwhite

  Self, Years, Bob

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