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• A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happiness, Labor Day, Secret

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.6, Modern Library

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• A mind always employed is always happy.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Labor Day, Mind, May Day

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.6, Modern Library

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• The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.

  Cesar Chavez

  Peace, Struggle, Fighting

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• Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Work

  Letter to HenryW. Ruoff, 28 Aug. 1908

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• The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sympathy, Peace, People

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.868, Modern Library

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• Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Motivational, Blessed, Blessing

  "The works of Henry Van Dyke".

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• The important role of union organizations must be admitted: their object is the representation of the various categories of workers, their lawful collaboration in the economic advance of society, and the development of the sense of their responsibility for the realization of the common good.

  Pope Paul VI

  Responsibility, Organization, Important

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• Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow

  Douglas Pagels

  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

  Alin Austin, Douglas Pagels (1993). “100 Things to Always Remember-- and One Thing to Never Forget”, Blue Mountain Arts

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• Its better to wear out than to rust out.

  Richard Cumberland

  Birthday, Rust, Inspirational Birthday

  In George Horne 'The Duty of Contending for the Faith' (1786) p. 21n.

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• No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

  Bertrand Russell

  Perseverance, Persistence, Achievement

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.35, Lulu Press, Inc

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• With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Organization, Labor Day

  The Railroad Trainman, November 1909.

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• Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop

  Ovid

  Inspirational, Success, Wisdom

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• The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

  H. L. Mencken

  Work, Stress, Men

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.250, Knopf

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• Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

  Henry Ford

  Success, Business, Work

  Henry Ford (1922). “Ford Ideals: Being a Selection from "Mr. Ford's Page" in The Dearborn Independent”

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• As it has over the decades, the union movement stands for the fundamental moral values that make America strong: quality education for our children, affordable health care for every person-not just some-an end to poverty, secure pensions and wages that enable families to sustain the middle-class life that has fueled this nation's prosperity and strength. Union members and other working family activists don't just vote our moral values-we live them. We fight for them, day in, day out. Our commitment to economic and social justice propels us and everything we do.

  John Sweeney

  Strong, Children, Commitment

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• When you say fiscal responsibility, it seems to me that you really mean rich people keeping their money.

  Alice Adams

  Money, Mean, Responsibility

  Alice Adams (2011). “LISTENING TO BILLIE: A Novel”, p.119, Vintage

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• Power just goes to two poles — to those who've got money, and those who've got people.

  Saul Alinsky

  Money, Two, People

  "The Professional Radical: Conversations with Saul Alinsky".

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• You can't do it unless you organize.

  Samuel Gompers

  Organized Labor, Unions, Labor Union

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• Work hard at work worth doing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Work, Day Jobs, Labor Day

  Theodore Roosevelt (1967). “Writings”

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• It’s better to wear out than rust out.

  David J. Schwartz

  Birthday, Rust, My Birthday

  David J. Schwartz (2014). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.27, Penguin

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• One must work, if not from inclination, at least out of despair — since it proves, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Boredom, Boring, Amusing

  "My Heart Laid Bare, and Other Prose Writings".

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• We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

  Cesar Chavez

  Strength, Struggle, Commitment

  Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.17, Texas A&M University Press

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• The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Essays". Volume 2,

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• The one thing that matters is the effort.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Life, Motivational, Best Effort

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• There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.

  H. M. Tomlinson

  Success, Stress, Labor Day

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