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• From this time everything was copulated. Acetic, formic, butyric, margaric, &c., acids, alkaloids, ethers, amides, anilides, all became copulated bodies. So that to make acetanilide, for example, they no longer employed acetic acid and aniline, but they re-copulated a copulated oxalic acid with a copulated ammonia. I am inventing nothing-altering nothing. Is it my fault if, when writing history, I appear to be composing a romance?

  Auguste Laurent

  Writing, Science, Romance

  David M. Knight, Auguste Laurent (1998). “The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Chemical method”, p.204, Taylor & Francis

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• The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.

  Plautus

  Inspirational, Funny, Men

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• All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn from commerce and agriculture where it would have produced addition to the common mass It nourishes in our citizens habits of vice and idleness instead of industry and morality It has furnished effectual means of corrupting such a portion of the legislature as turns the balance between the honest voters whichever way it is directed.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Agriculture, Balance

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson memorial association of the United States (1907). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• I have always employed humor, and I think it's absolutely crucial that we do because, among other things, humor is the only free emotion.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, Emotion, Crucial

  "The Humanist Interview with Gloria Steinem" by Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. August 14, 2012.

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• Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Thinking, Employment, Slavery

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.33, Random House

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• Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side which first employs air power as it should be employed. Germany, entangled in the meshes of vast land campaigns, cannot now disengage her air power for a strategically proper application. She missed victory through air power by a hair's breadth in 1940. . . . We ourselves are now at the crossroads.

  Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

  Hair, Land, Victory

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• A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.

  Clifford Geertz

  Destroying, Scholar

  Clifford Geertz (2012). “Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics”, p.67, Princeton University Press

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• I've never been unemployed. I've never been very fully employed either.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Unemployed

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• We should never be allowed to forget that it is the customer who, in the end, determines how many people are employed and what sort of wages companies can afford.

  Alfred Robens, Baron Robens of Woldingham

  Business, People, Wages

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• Hitler's dictatorship was the first of an industrial estate in this age of modern technology, a dictatorship which employed to perfection the instruments of technology to dominate its own people. By means of such instruments of technology, eighty million persons could be made subject to the will of one individual. Telephone, teletype, radio, made it possible to transmit the commands of the highest levels directly to the lowest organs where they were executed uncritically

  Albert Speer

  Mean, Technology, People

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• In the old days, spies had done they'd done because they loved their country, because they believed in what they were doing. But he'd never been given a choice. Nowadays, spies weren't employed. They were used.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Country, Choices, Spy

  Anthony Horowitz (2004). “Stormbreaker”, Puffin

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• The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Men, Perfect

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.19, Wordsworth Editions

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• I say that a Christian congregation can survive and often appear to prosper in the community by the exercise of human talent and without any touch from the Holy Spirit! All that religious activity and the dear people will not know anything better until the great and terrible day when our self-employed talents are burned with fire and only that which was wrought by the Holy Ghost will stand forever!

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Religious, Exercise

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• Vice President Joe Biden said today that 'Syria must be held accountable.' Unfortunately, the Obama administration has never employed an accountant, so they have no idea how to do that.

  Jay Leno

  Ideas, President, Vices

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• Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'

  Alton Brown

  Chef, Very Good, Cooks

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• I started working when I was very young. I got an agent when I was 12, and fortunately was employed consistently from that point on. So I didn't really go to a conventional high school. I was tutored on sets and things.

  Claire Danes

  School, Agents, Young

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• Long term debt and bank debt (including off-balance sheet financing must be judiciously employed. There must be room to expand the debt position if required.

  Peter Cundill

  Long, Balance, Debt

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• The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing and propaganda blitzes used to ensure control of the largest cash market in the world: the Executive Branch of the United States Government.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Government, Political, United States

  PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY (1964). “A CHOICE NOT AN ECHO”

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• Any humane and reasonable person must conclude that if the ends, however desireable, are uncertain and the means are horrible and certain, these means must not be employed.

  Howard Zinn

  Mean, Ends, Uncertain

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• It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

  Wendell Berry

  Real, Journey, Mind

  "Standing by Words: Essays". Book by Wendell Berry, 2011.

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• We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Way, Realizing, Strive

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• You know, the thing that I do to waste time is think of things I want to make. That's how my mind is employed.

  Joss Whedon

  Thinking, Mind, Want

  "Sex, secrets and 'Dollhouse': Joss Whedon talks about the end of his Fox show". Interview with Maureen Ryan, featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com. December 3, 2009.

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• I realized it was happening, but most people didn't realize it was happening. I mean, because as a self-employed person, when there is a recession or a cutback in the economy, we feel it first. Because many self-employed people provide services that are nonessential.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Mean, Self, People

  "After Suffering Loss, Iyanla Vanzant Starts Over". "Tell Me More" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. May 27, 2009.

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• I like being employed, you know. That's my favorite kind of acting.

  John C. Reilly

  Acting, Kind, My Favorite

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• Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed.

  Paul Rand

  Artist, Arrows, Elements

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