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• If someone does offer you a job, say 'yes.' You can always quit later. Then at least you'll be one of the unemployed as opposed to one of the never-employed. Nothing looks worse on a resume than nothing.

  Stephen Colbert

  Wisdom, Jobs, Yes You Can

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• The successful construction of all machinery depends on the perfection of the tools employed; and whoever is a master in the arts of tool-making possesses the key to the construction of all machines... The contrivance and construction of tools must therefore ever stand at the head of the industrial arts.

  Charles Babbage

  Art, Successful, Keys

  Charles Babbage, Philip Morrison, Emily Morrison (1961). “Charles Babbage on the Principles and Development of the Calculator: And Other Seminal Writings”, p.322, Courier Corporation

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• Full employment does not mean literally no unemployment; that is to say, it does not mean that every man and woman in the country who is fit and free for work is employed productively every day of his or her working life ... Full employment means that unemployment is reduced to short intervals of standing by, with the certainty that very soon one will be wanted in one's old job again or will be wanted in a new job that is within one's powers.

  William Beveridge

  Country, Jobs, Mean

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• Habits are formed, not at one stroke, but gradually and insensibly; so that, unless vigilant care be employed, a great change may come over the character without our being conscious of any.

  Richard Whately

  Character, Care, May

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1861). “Bacon's Essays”, p.403

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• Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Kindness, Kitchen, Charity

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Immortality, Wells

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2356, Delphi Classics

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• Most men have a sunny spot to which they look back in their existence, as most have an impossible future, to attain which all their energies are exerted, and their resources employed. The difference between these visionary scenes is this, that they think a good deal of the latter, but talk a good deal of the former.

  George Whyte-Melville

  Book, Men, Thinking

  George John Whyte-Melville (1899). “Works”

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• The earth has been cultivated before it has been divided; the cultivation itself having been the only motive for a division, and for that law which secures to every one his property. For the first persons who have employed themselves in cultivation, have probably worked as much land as their strength would permit, and, consequently, more than was necessary for their own nourishment.

  Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

  Law, Land, Division

  "Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth". Book by Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (§ 2), 1766.

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• I have an accountant, obviously, because I'm self employed, and I use an independent financial adviser. I trust my accountant because we have worked together for a long time now.

  Richard Armitage

  Independent, Self, Long

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• In the beginning, there was no retirement. There were no old people. In the Stone Age, everyone was fully employed until age 20, by which time nearly everyone was dead, usually of unnatural causes. Any early man who lived long enough to develop crow's-feet was either worshiped or eaten as a sign of respect.

  Mary-Lou Weisman

  Retirement, Feet, Long

  "The History of Retirement, From Early Man to A.A.R.P." by Mary-Lou Weisman, www.nytimes.com. March 21, 1999.

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• A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Lying, Future, Men

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• See yourself as self employed.

  Pat Summitt

  Self

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.103, Crown Business

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• Young people are not raw material to be employed by the political class on behalf of whatever fashionable political, military, or social cause catches its fancy. In a free society, their lives are not the playthings of government.

  Ron Paul

  Military, Government, Class

  "The Revolution: A Manifesto". Book by Ron Paul, 2008.

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• When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.

  Adam Smith

  Complaining, Decay, Prosperity

  Adam Smith (2007). “The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.60, Harriman House Limited

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