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• Thus, while I thought myself employed only in forming a Nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Able, Nomenclature, Degrees

  "Elements of Chemistry". Book by Antoine Lavoisier, 1790.

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• Full employment does not mean literally no unemployment; that is to say, it does not mean that every man and woman in the country who is fit and free for work is employed productively every day of his or her working life ... Full employment means that unemployment is reduced to short intervals of standing by, with the certainty that very soon one will be wanted in one's old job again or will be wanted in a new job that is within one's powers.

  William Beveridge

  Country, Jobs, Mean

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• Habits are formed, not at one stroke, but gradually and insensibly; so that, unless vigilant care be employed, a great change may come over the character without our being conscious of any.

  Richard Whately

  Character, Care, May

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1861). “Bacon's Essays”, p.403

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• Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Kindness, Kitchen, Charity

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Immortality, Wells

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2356, Delphi Classics

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• Most men have a sunny spot to which they look back in their existence, as most have an impossible future, to attain which all their energies are exerted, and their resources employed. The difference between these visionary scenes is this, that they think a good deal of the latter, but talk a good deal of the former.

  George Whyte-Melville

  Book, Men, Thinking

  George John Whyte-Melville (1899). “Works”

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• The earth has been cultivated before it has been divided; the cultivation itself having been the only motive for a division, and for that law which secures to every one his property. For the first persons who have employed themselves in cultivation, have probably worked as much land as their strength would permit, and, consequently, more than was necessary for their own nourishment.

  Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

  Law, Land, Division

  "Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth". Book by Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (§ 2), 1766.

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• I have an accountant, obviously, because I'm self employed, and I use an independent financial adviser. I trust my accountant because we have worked together for a long time now.

  Richard Armitage

  Independent, Self, Long

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• In the beginning, there was no retirement. There were no old people. In the Stone Age, everyone was fully employed until age 20, by which time nearly everyone was dead, usually of unnatural causes. Any early man who lived long enough to develop crow's-feet was either worshiped or eaten as a sign of respect.

  Mary-Lou Weisman

  Retirement, Feet, Long

  "The History of Retirement, From Early Man to A.A.R.P." by Mary-Lou Weisman, www.nytimes.com. March 21, 1999.

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• A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Lying, Future, Men

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• See yourself as self employed.

  Pat Summitt

  Self

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.103, Crown Business

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• I call that man idle who might be better employed.

  Socrates

  Men, Might, Idle

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• My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.

  Bette Midler

  Teacher, Sibling, Independent

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• I've always believed in God. I remember once a guy asked me what it was like to be self-employed. I said, I'm not self employed. I work for God. The pay is good; He works me hard.

  Jack Canfield

  Self, Guy, Pay

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• I am a marginally employed person who can escape with my school teacher wife to the waters of Maine for much of the summer.

  John Hodgman

  Summer, Teacher, School

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• Everybody was willing to give me a job. But I wanted to do something different. I saw myself as an independent person, self-employed.

  Paul Rusesabagina

  Jobs, Independent, Self

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them

  John Locke

  Children, Hate, Use

  John Locke (1888*). “Some thoughts on education and an essay on the consequences of the lowering of interest and raising the value of money”

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• When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.

  Adam Smith

  Complaining, Decay, Prosperity

  Adam Smith (2007). “The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.60, Harriman House Limited

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• It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of concealing thought by dissimulation and lying as for the purpose of elucidating and communicating thought.

  Wilfred Bion

  Lying, Purpose, Speech

  Wilfred Ruprecht Bion (1977). “Seven Servants: Four Works”, Jason Aronson Incorporated

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• Being without work [in the United States] is still far better for most people than being employed in Central America.

  George J. Borjas

  America, People, United States

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• Liberals believe and inexhaustible fund exists that can be tapped endlessly to pay for government social programs. Tax the rich and give it to a long line of moochers, pork barrel hustlers and ne'er-do-wells. These funds would otherwise have been employed as additional capital indispensable to economic progress.

  James Cook

  Believe, Government, Giving

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• A city suffering from chronic poverty, out-of-control crime, a $76 million budget deficit and a 15 percent unemployment rate (nearly 50 percent for Oakland's youth) can hardly afford such social justice follies. But a pushover Democratic mayor and an overwhelmed police force have left what's left of gainfully employed Oakland taxpayers at the mercy of professional freeloaders and anti-capitalism saboteurs.

  Michelle Malkin

  Cities, Oakland, Justice

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• Beware leverage in all its forms. Borrowers - individual, corporate, or government - should always match fund their liabilities against the duration of their assets. Borrowers must always remember that capital markets can be extremely fickle, and that it is never safe to assume a maturing loan can be rolled over. Even if you are unleveraged, the leverage employed by others can drive dramatic price and valuation swings; sudden unavailability of leverage in the economy may trigger an economic downturn.

  Seth Klarman

  Government, Swings, Fickle

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• Long term debt and bank debt (including off-balance sheet financing must be judiciously employed. There must be room to expand the debt position if required.

  Peter Cundill

  Long, Balance, Debt

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• Japanese management practices succeed simply because they are good management practices. This success has little to do with cultural factors. And the lack of cultural bias means that these practices can be - and are - just as successfully employed elsewhere.

  Masaaki Imai

  Mean, Practice, Good Man

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