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• Income from property is not the reward of waiting, it is the reward of employing a good stockbroker.

  Joan Robinson

  Waiting, Income, Rewards

  Joan Robinson (1973). “Collected economic papers”

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• ... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies.

  Lady Hester Stanhope

  Philosophical, Discovery, Sublime

  Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (1846). “Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope”, p.13

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• I have experience and I am employing it in the service of a Chilean road for Chile's problems. We always take advantage of experience wherever it comes from, but adapting it to our reality. I am putting it to use in a Chilean way, for the problems of Chile. We are not anyone's mental colonists.

  Salvador Allende

  Reality, Use, Way

  Interview with Saul Landau, 1971.

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• Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a type only by employing the singularities of several similar characters.

  Honore de Balzac

  Character, Men, Two

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• When the mass of families in a State are without property, then those who were once citizens become virtually slaves. The more the State steps in to enforce conditions of security and sufficiency; the more it regulates wages, provides compulsory insurance, doctoring, education, and in general takes over the lives of the wage-earners, for the benefit of the companies and men employing the wage-earners, the more is this condition of semi-slavery accentuated.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Men, Steps

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• All experience teaches that, whenever there is a great national establishment, employing large numbers of officials, the public must be reconciled to support many incompetent men; for such is the favoritism and nepotism always prevailing in the purlieus of these establishments, that some incompetent persons are always admitted, to the exclusion of many of the worthy.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Numbers, Support

  Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war”, p.118

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• Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Black, Doubt

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Miscellanies”, p.135

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• Employing women as my primary protagonists has allowed me to step outside of myself, to distance myself from my own personality, far more easily than were I to look at events from a masculine perspective.

  Tom Robbins

  Distance, Perspective, Personality

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• I have an inviolable rule against employing nepots and spouses, because they breed politics. Whenever two people get married, one of them must depart - preferably the female, to look after the baby.

  David Ogilvy

  Baby, Money, Two

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• From laboratories employing complex apparatus, poetry often emerges into the outside world after a long lapse of time, just as some scientific discoveries become common property only after they have entered the blood stream of the generations.

  Mieczyslaw Jastrun

  Blood, Discovery, Long

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• Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns.

  Margaret Halsey

  Patterns, Liquor, Employed

  Margaret Halsey (1977). “No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an author has always lived in a room, has read books, has cultivated science, is acquainted with the style and sentiments of the best authors, but he is out of the way of employing his own eyes and ears. He has nothing to hear and nothing to see. His life is a vacuum.

  Walter Bagehot

  Book, Writing, Eye

  Walter Bagehot, Norman St. John-Stevas (1965). “The collected works of Walter Bagehot”

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• Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.

  Sergei Eisenstein

  Bird, Lightning, Landscape

  Sergei Eisenstein (2014). “Film Form: Essays in Film Theory”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you just as the highwayman’s gun. You must live … You can’t work for yourself … The factories, machinery, and tools belong to the employing class, so you must hire yourself out to that class in order to work and live. Whatever you work at, whoever your employer may be, it always comes to the same: you must workfor him. You can’t help yourself. You are compelled.

  Alexander Berkman

  Gun, Order, Class

  Alexander Berkman (2010). “Now and After: the ABC of Anarchist Communism”, p.17, Lulu.com

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• Remembering that Eratosthenes of Cyrene, employing mathematical theories and geometrical methods, discovered from the course of the sun, the shadows cast by an equinoctial gnomon, and the inclination of the heaven that the circumference of the earth is two hundred and fifty-two thousand stadia, that is, thirty-one million five hundred thousand paces.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Two, Heaven, Shadow

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter VI, Section 9,

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• Internationalism means that we can see into the dark corners of the world, and hold those companies to account when they are devastating forests or employing children as bonded labour. Globalization is the complete opposite, its rules pit country against country and workers against workers in the blinkered pursuit of international competitiveness.

  Anita Roddick

  Country, Children, Mean

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• The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words.

  Gustave Le Bon

  Art

  Gustave Le Bon (1947). “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind”, p.59, Lulu.com

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• If we human beings rely only on material development, we can’t be sure of a positive outcome. Employing technology motivated by anger and hatred is likely to be destructive. It will only be beneficial if we seek the welfare of all beings. Human beings are the only species with the potential to destroy the world. Because of the risks of unrestrained desire and greed we need to cultivate contentment and simplicity.

  Dalai Lama

  Technology, Hatred, Greed

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• It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Reality, Tools

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• From 8,000 miles away... I would not judge a fellow soldier from a friendly nation and how they are employing their resources.

  Peter Pace

  Judging, Soldier, Friendly

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• . . . the example given by the Nazi regime as to the ability of a modern state to destroy human lives with the same techniques used by modern industry, employing the bureaucratic apparatus readily available to any modern state, is one that can hardly be ignored. Because although history may not repeat itself, it is rare that anything introduced to human history is not used again. Whether the Holocaust was unique or not in terms of its precedents is one question; whether it will remain so is quite another.

  Omer Bartov

  Unique, Holocaust, May

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• It’s paradoxical that the death of your quarry is besides the point and at the same time the whole point. A chase without a kill as its object is like a journey without a destination; a kill without a chase employing all the hunter’s craft is killing, not hunting.

  Philip Caputo

  Journey, Hunting, Hunters

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• By employing the intelligence of natural systems we can create industry, buildings, even regional plans that see nature and commerce not as mutually exclusive but mutually coexisting.

  Brad Pitt

  Building, Natural, Eco Friendly

  e2: The Economies of Being Environmentally Conscious, www.pbs.org. 2006.

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• All the great establishments, of every kind, now in the hands of a few proprietors, but employing a great number of wage laborers, would be broken up; for few or no persons, who could hire capital and do business for themselves would consent to labour for wages for another.

  Lysander Spooner

  Hands, Numbers, Broken

  Lysander Spooner (1886). “A Letter to Grover Cleveland on His False Inaugural Address, the Usurpation and Crimes of Lawmakers and Judges, and Consequent Poverty, Ignorance, and Servitude of the People”

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• Yet magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses; and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician. Magic has but one dogma, namely, that the seen is the measure of the unseen.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Art, Mean, Imagination

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “The Magician: A Novel”, p.67, The Floating Press

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