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• From earliest childhood the boy was accustomed to feel that, for him, life was double. Winter and summer, town and country, law and liberty, were hostile, and the man who pretended they were not, was in his eyes a schoolmaster -- that is, a man employed to tell lies to little boys.

  Henry Adams

  Summer, Country, Lying

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1271, Open Road Media

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• HOLLY TREE (Ilex aquifolium) is a symbol of good will and is associated with sun gods. In Rome the holly was sacred to Saturn and was employed in the rites of the Saturnalia, where it was a symbol of health and happiness. The holly is an evergreen and therefore is associated with the sun god.

  Raven Grimassi

  Rome, Tree, Hollies

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• Ages employed in making history have no time for studying it.

  Solomon Schechter

  Age, Study, Making History

  Solomon Schechter (1970). “Studies in Judaism: Essays on Persons, Concepts, and Movements of Thought in Jewish Tradition”

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• There isn't a single day I don't do some writing -- if you don't, you won't have a book. When you're self-employed it is very easy to burn away your time instead -- answering e-mails, surfing the Internet, or hanging out with friends. You really must have the discipline to sit down and write every day. Most of what I am writing is living in the back of my head or in my subconscious. I find if I write every day, my subconscious will do the job for me.

  Charles de Lint

  Jobs, Book, Writing

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• It is not part of the functions of the national government to find employment for people - and if we were to appropriate a hundred millions for this purpose, we should be taxing forty millions of people to keep a few thousand employed.

  James A. Garfield

  Government, People, Employment

  "The Life and Letters of James Abram Garfield: 1831-1877". Book by Theodore Clarke Smith, 1925.

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• Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Firsts, Life Is

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.196, Hackett Publishing

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• There is a reason why America produced the most vigorous feminist movement in the world: We were one of the only countries in which the middle class (which is wealthy by world standards) customarily employed its own women as domestic servants.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Country, Class, America

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1989). “FEAR OF FALLING”, Pantheon

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• The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.

  Samuel Smiles

  Victory, Moral, Virtue

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.280

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• FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen. The frying-pan was invented by Calvin, and by him used in cooking span-long infants that had died without baptism; and observing one day the horrible torment of a tramp who had incautiously pulled a fried babe from the waste-dump and devoured it, it occurred to the great divine to rob death of its terrors by introducing the frying-pan into every household in Geneva. Thence it spread to all corners of the world, and has been of invaluable assistance in the propagation of his sombre faith.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Long, Baptism, Cooking

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.91, University of Georgia Press

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• Pork - no animal is more used for nourishment and none more indispensable in the kitchen; employed either fresh or salt, all is useful, even to its bristles and its blood; it is the superfluous riches of the farmer, and helps to pay the rent of the cottager.

  Alexis Soyer

  Food, Animal, Blood

  Alexis Soyer (1851). “The Modern Housewife: Or, Ménagère. Comprising Nearly One Thousand Receipts, for the Economic and Judicious Preparation of Every Meal of the Day, and Those for the Nursery and Sick Room; and Minute Directions for Family Management in All Its Branches. Illustrated with Engravings Including the Modern Housewife's Unique Kitchen, and Magic Stove”, p.198

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• The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor employed.

  Karl Marx

  Commodity, Labor, Productions

  Karl Marx (1913). “Value, Price and Profit”

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• Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Genius, Neglect, Circumstances

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James MARSH (D.D.) (1829). “Aids to reflection, in the formation of a manly character ... illustrated by select passages ... especially from Archbishop Leighton ... First American, from the first London edition ... Together with a preliminary essay, and additional notes, by James Marsh”, p.1

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• The art of war is at once comprehensive and complicated; ... it demands much previous study; and ... the possession of it, in its most improved and perfect state, is always a great moment to the security of a nation. This, therefore, ought to be a serious care of every government; and for this purpose, an academy, where a regular course of instruction is given, is an obvious expedient, which different nations have successfully employed.

  George Washington

  Art, War, Government

  United States. President, George Washington, United States (1825). “The speeches, addresses and messages, of the several presidents of the United States, at the openings of Congress and at their respective inaugurations: Also, the Declaration of independence, the Constitution of the United States, and Washington's farewell address to his fellow-citizens”, p.91

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• Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are well known, is a fairly risky place to live. To be evil, you have to have intent. Any remarkable natural happening in which no human will is employed cannot be regarded as evil.

  Simon Winchester

  People, Evil, World

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• A pure, sincere, and stable spirit is not distracted though it be employed in many works; for that it works all to the honor of God, and inwardly being still and quiet, seeks not itself in any thing it doth.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Honor, Spirit, Quiet

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 124, 1895.

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• All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only to an imagined celestial existence... logic takes us nearer to heaven than other studies.

  Bertrand Russell

  Heaven, Logic, Study

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• In the metaphysical elements of aesthetics the various nonmoral feelings are to be made use of; in the elements of moral metaphysics the various moral feelings of men, according to the differences in sex, age, education, and government, of races and climates, are to be employed.

  Immanuel Kant

  Sex, Men, Differences

  Immanuel Kant (1904). “The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant”

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• The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.

  Immanuel Kant

  Mean, Men, Order

  Immanuel Kant (1986). “Philosophical Writings”, Continuum

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• Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

  John W. Gardner

  Running, Being Yourself, Clever

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• There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Waking, Technique

  Sigmund Freud (2010). “The Interpretation of Dreams”, p.35, Basic Books

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• Robert Spencer, a prolific anti-Islam writer and a leading Islamophobe who is bent on distorting Islam and demonizing Muslims, has persistently argued that violence and terrorism employed by Muslim extremists is rooted in the Quran and its message. Spencer calls the Quran, a book sacred to Muslim, 'the jihadists' Mein Kampf,' in reference to Hitler's memoir.

  Louay M. Safi

  Book, Muslim Extremists, Islam

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• From this time everything was copulated. Acetic, formic, butyric, margaric, &c., acids, alkaloids, ethers, amides, anilides, all became copulated bodies. So that to make acetanilide, for example, they no longer employed acetic acid and aniline, but they re-copulated a copulated oxalic acid with a copulated ammonia. I am inventing nothing-altering nothing. Is it my fault if, when writing history, I appear to be composing a romance?

  Auguste Laurent

  Writing, Science, Romance

  David M. Knight, Auguste Laurent (1998). “The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Chemical method”, p.204, Taylor & Francis

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• The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.

  Plautus

  Inspirational, Funny, Men

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• Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side which first employs air power as it should be employed. Germany, entangled in the meshes of vast land campaigns, cannot now disengage her air power for a strategically proper application. She missed victory through air power by a hair's breadth in 1940. . . . We ourselves are now at the crossroads.

  Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

  Hair, Land, Victory

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• Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Thinking, Employment, Slavery

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.33, Random House

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