Workers Quotes - Page 33

• Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That's a good thing, and one of the best arguments for immigration reform, even if you'll rarely hear a politician make it.

  James Surowiecki

  Immigration, Reform, Borders

  "Immigration Reform and the American Worker". www.newyorker.com. February 21, 2013.

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• Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as true in a global economy as a national one.

  John J. Sweeney

  Fog, Able, Economy

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• My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner.

  Michael Symon

  Family, Thanksgiving, Holiday

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• The NFL, sadly, has a fatal environmental problem: It kills its workers.

  Matt Taibbi

  Nfl, Environmental, Problem

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• No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Friends, Wisdom, Hate

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• If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?

  Valentina Tereshkova

  Russia, Space, Railroads

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• The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Nature, Gentle Touch

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Thoreau's Book of Quotations”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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• I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up.

  Eddie Vedder

  Reality, Connections, Want

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• The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.

  Lech Walesa

  Truth, People, Dignity

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• I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.

  Lech Walesa

  Education, Opportunity, Rights

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• This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.

  Lech Walesa

  Summer, Rights, People

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• So why am I facing a recall election? Simple: the big government union bosses from Washington want their money. They don't like the fact that I did something fundamentally pro-worker; something that's truly about freedom.

  Scott Walker

  Simple, Government, Boss

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• You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Fire, Police, Occupy Movement

  "Elizabeth Warren: 'There Is Nobody in This Country Who Got Rich on His Own'". Campaign video clip, www.cbsnews.com. September 22, 2011.

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• Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.

  Max Weber

  Accomplishment, Today, Lifetime

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• Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Ideas, Perfect

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• Ministers should impress upon the people the necessity of individual effort. No church can flourish unless its members are workers. The people must lift where the ministers lift.

  Ellen G. White

  Individual Effort, People, Church

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book I of IV”, p.953, Lulu Press, Inc

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• When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel bag. It sounds kind of crazy, but I loved it. I loved the stuff. Before I knew there was a subject called philosophy, I loved it.

  Dallas Willard

  Plato, Philosophy, Crazy

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• As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.

  Marianne Williamson

  Fighting, Light, Creating

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.

  E. O. Wilson

  World, Predator, Ants

  "An Interview With E.O. Wilson, the Father of the Encyclopedia of Life". Interview with David Pogue, www.nytimes.com. October 23, 2008.

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• I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.

  Natalie Wood

  Mother, Bathroom, Social Worker

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• With the loss of Free Choice Vouchers, hundreds of thousands of workers will now be forced to choose between their employers' unaffordable insurance or going without health care.

  Ron Wyden

  Loss, Choices, Care

  "Is This How You Want Your Senate To Do Business?" by Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 14, 2011.

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• Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of the labor market and enable efficiency-enhancing changes in relative pay to occur without requiring nominal wage cuts by workers.

  Janet Yellen

  Cutting, Yale, Grease

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• In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.

  Clara Zetkin

  Attitude, Important, Pay

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• Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Bullying, Boss, Promise

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• The tribal community lived in the totality of circular time; the farmers of God's universe understood before and after; workers of the clockwork universe lived by the tick; and we creatures of the digital era must relate to the pulse.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Community, Pulse, Eras

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.55, Penguin

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