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• If you have laser-like brain it's not always focused on the most productive things. If you want to play Halo: Reach all day, that's fine, but if you want to accomplish some other things, here are some ways to do that using your innate nerd gifts.

  Chris Hardwick

  Play, Nerd, Brain

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In the U.S. for instance, the value of a homemaker's productive work has been imputed mostly when she was maimed or killed and insurance companies and/or the courts had to calculate the amount to pay her family in damages. Even at that, the rates were mostly pink collar and the big number was attributed to the husband's pain and suffering.

  Gloria Steinem

  Pain, Husband, Productive Work

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.392, Open Road Media

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• The result of civilization, at the Sandwich Islands and elsewhere, is found productive to the civilizers, destructive to the civilizees. It is said to be compensation--a very philosophical word; but it appears to be very much on the principle of the old game, "You lose, I win": good philosophy for the winner.

  Herman Melville

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Winning

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• The genius of America is production; and a large percentage of our productive enterprises are headed by men who have come up from the worker's bench.

  William S. Knudsen

  Men, America, Genius

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• A healthier, less impoverished planet is good for all of us. From an economic standpoint, it allows people to contribute more to the marketplace and lead productive lives. U.S. foreign assistance opens new markets to U.S. goods and services and creates new trading partners and allies.

  Mike Huckabee

  Productive Life, People, Allies

  "Why foreign aid still makes sense" by Mike Huckabee and Blanche Lincoln, www.politico.com. October 22, 2012.

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• When you realize how hard it is to know the truth about yourself, you understand that even the most exhaustive and well-meaning autobiography, determined to tell the truth, represents, at best, a guess. There have been times in my life when I felt incredibly happy. Life was full. I seemed productive. Then I thought,"Am I really happy or am I merely masking a deep depression with frantic activity?" If I don't know such basic things about myself, who does?

  Phyllis Rose

  Truth, Happy Life, Doe

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• Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.

  Alan Greenspan

  Government, Support, Political

  "Greenspan’s Testimony: Will the ‘Maestro’ Face the Music?" by Richard (RJ) Eskow, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2010.

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• I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.

  Beau Willimon

  Xbox, Home, Thinking

  "Banging Everything in Sight: My Trip to the LA Gun Club" by Beau Willimon, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2010.

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• Industrial Society is not merely one containing 'industry,' large-scale productive units capable of supplying man's material needs in a way which can eliminate poverty: it is also a society in which knowledge plays a part wholly different from that which it played in earlier social forms, and which indeed possesses a quite different type of knowledge. Modern science is inconceivable outside an industrial society: but modern industrial society is equally inconceivable without modern science. Roughly, science is the mode of cognition of industrial society, and industry is the ecology of science.

  Ernest Gellner

  Men, Play, Different

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• Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and very productive.

  Arthur Frederick Saunders

  Would Be, Charm, Dean

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• While, politically, a mixed economy preserves the semblance of an organized society with a semblance of law and order, economically it is the equivalent of the chaos that had ruled China for centuries: a chaos of robber gangs looting-and draining-the productive elements of the country.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, Order, Law

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.197, Penguin

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• The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.

  James Mackintosh

  Wealth, Labor

  Sir James Mackintosh (1848). “The miscellaneous works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh”, p.429

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• The lady ... is not a producer; in most communities productive labor is by consent unladylike. On the other hand she is the heaviest of consumers, and theorists have not been wanting to maintain that the more she spends the better off society is.

  Emily James Smith Putnam

  Hands, Community, Producers

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• The use of the high level language made each programmer a factor of 5 to 10 more productive in a coding sense and more concerned with the semantics than the syntax of modules.

  Fernando J. Corbato

  Syntax, Use, Levels

  "A Managerial View of the Multics System Development". Talk at the Conference on Research Directions in Software Technology, Providence, Rhode Island, www.multicians.org. October 1977.

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• Continued traveling is far from productive. It begins with wearing away the soles of the shoes, and making the feet sore, and erelong it will wear a man clean up, after making his heart sore into the bargain. I have observed that the afterlife of those who have traveled much is very pathetic.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Heart, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “The Most Alive is the Wildest – Thoreau’s Complete Works on Living in Harmony with the Nature: Walden, Walking, Night and Moonlight, The Highland Light, A Winter Walk, The Maine Woods, A Walk to Wachusett, The Landlord, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Autumnal Tints, Wild Apples…”, p.455, e-artnow

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• Productive collaborations between family and school, therefore, will demand that parents and teachers recognize the critical importance of each other's participation in the life of the child. This mutuality of knowledge, understanding, and empathy comes not only with a recognition of the child as the central purpose for the collaboration but also with a recognition of the need to maintain roles and relationships with children that are comprehensive, dynamic, and differentiated.

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

  Teacher, Children, School

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• Things which matter cost money, and we've got to spend the money if we do not want to have generations of parasites rather than generations of productive citizens.

  Barbara Jordan

  Generations, Citizens, Cost

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• The most important difference between these early American families and our own is that early families constituted economic unitsin which all members, from young children on up, played important productive roles within the household. The prosperity of the whole family depended on how well husband, wife, and children could manage and cultivate the land. Children were essential to this family enterprise from age six or so until their twenties, when they left home.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Children, Husband, Home

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots of unspeakable ferocity capable of overturning in an instant the tranquil and productive life of a people.

  Pope John Paul II

  Heart, Men, Productive Life

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• We might even invent laws for series or formula in an arbitrary manner, and set the engine to work upon them, and thus deduce numerical results which we might not otherwise have thought of obtaining; but this would hardly perhaps in any instance be productive of any great practical utility, or calculated to rank higher than as a philosophical amusement.

  Ada Lovelace

  Philosophical, Law, Arbitrary

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• Over the course of my life I've had more than my fair share of romantic relationships with wonderful women, many moved on to live happy, healthy, and productive lives, and I'm pleased to say remain dear friends today. Sadly, there are a few who have chosen to rewrite history in an attempt to stay in the spotlight. I guess, as the old saying goes: You can't win 'em all!

  Hugh Hefner

  Life, Winning, Healthy

  "Hugh Hefner Says Ex Holly Madison Has 'Chosen to Rewrite History to Stay in the Spotlight'" by Sierra Marquina, www.usmagazine.com. June 21, 2015.

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• A food waste reduction hierarchy-feeding people first, then animals, then recycling, then composting-serves to show how productive use can be made of much of the excess food that is currently contributing to leachate and methane formation in landfills.

  Carol Browner

  Animal, People, Environmental

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• In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.

  Barry Commoner

  Running, Risk, Environmental

  Barry Commoner (2014). “The Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology”, p.122, Knopf

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• Healthy children are more likely to attend school and are better able to learn. Healthy workers are more productive. More productive economies mean greater stability in developing countries and improved security in the West.

  Seth Berkley

  Country, Children, Mean

  "The World Is Moving Forward Without Us" by Seth Berkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2009.

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• Across the globe, regardless of nationality or financial status, there is a common dream every mother has for her children - for them to live full, healthy and productive lives. As a mother, I share that dream for my children.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  Mother, Dream, Children

  "Helping Women Achieve a Common Dream" by Sylvia Mathews Burwell, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2012.

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