Livelihood Quotes - Page 5

• At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Israel, Hands, Land

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• I hope there will be no effort to put up a shaft or any monument of that sort in memory of me or of the other women who have giventhemselves to our work. The best kind of a memorial would be a school where girls could be taught everything useful that would help them to earn an honorable livelihood; where they could learn to do anything they were capable of, just as boys can. I would like to have lived to see such a school as that in every great city of the United States.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Girl, Memories, School

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• Squash was my livelihood and as in business, I had to stay on top.

  Jahangir

  Squash

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• And the back of his anorak was leaping up and down, and people were chucking money to him. I said 'Do you earn a living doing that?' He said 'Yes, this my livelihood.'

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, People

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• Sometimes I hear news about the huge dollars involved with CEO pay and corporate-management salaries, and I'm mystified at how someone can justify taking that much at the cost of other people's livelihoods. In a bizarre way, I'm almost kind of curious, like "How can they absolve themselves and enjoy their wealth?" I don't understand it.

  Eddie Vedder

  People, News, Pay

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Lil' Kim is my stage name and a character I use when I'm out working my livelihood.

  Lil' Kim

  Character, Names, Use

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The US has developed two coordinate governing classes: the one, called 'business,' building cities, manufacturing and distributing goods, and holding complete and autocratic power over the livelihood of millions; the other, called 'government,' concerned with preaching and exemplification of spiritual ideals, so caught in a mass of theory, that when it wished to move in a practical world it had to do so by means of a sub rosa political machine.

  Thurman Arnold

  Spiritual, Moving, Mean

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• Skating was put on the map, supposedly from me Everybody made a life and a livelihood, um, except me.

  Tonya Harding

  Skating, Maps, Made

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• In the forests of central India and in many, many rural areas, a huge battle is being waged. Millions of people are being driven off their lands by mining companies, by dams, by infrastructure companies, and a huge battle is being waged. These are not people who have been co-opted into consumer culture, into the western notions of civilisation and progress. They are fighting for their lands and their livelihoods, refusing to be looted so that someone somewhere far away may "progress" at their cost.

  Arundhati Roy

  Fighting, Land, People

  "Arundhati Roy: 'The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution'". Interview with Arun Gupta, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2011.

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• There is no reason why a company like Monsanto, for example, that is pushing GMOs, cannot go to Kenya, partner with the university, partner with the research institutions, and try to promote - in a responsible way - advanced techniques to help farmers. But this should be done in such a way that the farmers' livelihoods are not undermined because the government is irresponsible or careless, or because it is compromised.

  Wangari Maathai

  Gmos, Government, Trying

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• I have argued that we need livelihood insurance, which would protect people against the risk of seeing their skills and expertise no longer needed. Such insurance could be offered by the private sector.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Skills, People, Risk

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• It's an art installation to put out a collection, with the people behind the scenes who are inventing and creating these designs and making sure they're realized on the catwalk, and just how much hangs on it for the designers. Their livelihoods hang in the balance, as far as whether this year's collection works for them or not, and there are so many people's jobs on the line, as a result of that. I just had no idea.

  Tom Riley

  Art, Jobs, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• Many people, they flee not the war itself, but the consequences of the war, because they want to live, they want to have the basic needs for their livelihood, they don't have it. They have to flee these circumstances, not necessarily the security situation itself. So, you have different reasons for the people or the refugees to leave Syria.

  Bashar al-Assad

  War, People, Different

  "Syria's al-Assad speaks: Why he blames U.S. for truce's demise, and says war will 'drag on'". Interview, www.theglobeandmail.com. September 22, 2016.

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• This is my job, my livelihood: the health and the well-being of the publishing industry. We're all responsible for this.

  Ann Patchett

  Jobs, Responsible, Well Being

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I spent my life - all my life - learning to wrestle. It's the only means of livelihood I've ever had and, uh, the only gimmick that I have in wrestling is wrestling.

  Lou Thesz

  Mean, Wrestling, Gimmicks

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• In a sluggish economy, never, ever f*** with another man's livelihood.

  Joe Pantoliano

  Money, Men, Economy

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• The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard knowledge from a purely utilitarian point of view as the road to money, not as the gateway to wisdom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Knowledge, Science, Views

  Bertrand Russell (1992). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”, p.409, Psychology Press

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• The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest and best and most rewardingly by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning.

  Gilbert Highet

  Aim Of Education, Chiefs, Enjoy

  Gilbert Highet (1976). “The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning”, Random House Incorporated

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• The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Musical, Accumulation, Ruling

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• The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.

  Nelson Algren

  Work, Men, Assessing

  "Nelson Algren, The Art of Fiction No. 11". Interview with Alston Anderson, Terry Southern, www.theparisreview.org. 1955.

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• The poor ignorant fellah [Arabic for peasant] does not worry about politics, but when he is told repeatedly by people in whom he has confidence that his livelihood is in danger of being taken away from him by us, he becomes our mortal enemy. . . The Arab is primitive and believes what he is told.

  Chaim Weizmann

  Believe, Taken, People

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• People, regardless of political views, matter in this state and in this country and in this world. And, you know, when people attack people's basic rights and livelihoods, I'm concerned about it. And as a citizen of Queensland and nothing else, I've got the right to express my view.

  Clive Palmer

  Country, Australia, Rights

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• I started The Body Shop in 1976 simply to create a livelihood for myself and my two daughters, while my husband, Gordon, was trekking across the Americas. I had no training or experience and my only business acumen was Gordon's advice to take sales of £300 a week. Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

  Anita Roddick

  Daughter, Mother, Husband

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• Women are the victims of war... as widows they've faced the trauma of being single parents and livelihoods of families are affected. A lot of gender-related problems come up in terms of health, education, domestic violence, etc.

  Kumari Jayawardena

  War, Women, Being Single

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• To maintain nice relation with the people is half of intelligence, nice questioning is half of knowledge, and nice domestic arrangements is half of the management of livelihood.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Nice, Islamic

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