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A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert. -- Denis Kearney
Ah little recks the laborer, How near his work is holding him to God, The loving Laborer through space and time -- Walt Whitman
The Only Things That Were Available To Me Were Either Be A Laborer Or Be A Drug Dealer. So I Became An Armed Robber. It Was A Lot Simpler. -- Danny Trejo
All that is called Destiny or Fate is none other than the result of our thoughtlessness and our mistrust of ourselves; we should know that all that is created on earth is created by its sole Master and Laborer -- Man. -- Maxim Gorky
I class myself as a manual laborer. -- Theodore White
I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun. -- Shakira
You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it. -- Rebecca Harding Davis
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. -- Karl Marx
What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener. -- Dan DeCarlo
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. -- Khalil Gibran
Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society. -- William Graham Sumner
No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment. -- Lucy Larcom
If we can by any method establish a relation of mutual trust between the laborer and the employer, we shall lay the foundation stone of a structure that will endure for all time. -- Mark Hanna
Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it. -- Lucy Larcom
When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal. -- Leland Stanford
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. -- Louis Nizer
I think if 'The Narrow Road To The Deep North' is one of the high points of Japanese culture, then the experience of my father, who was a slave laborer on the Death Railway, represents one of its low points. -- Richard Flanagan
The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws. -- Andrew Jackson
A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker in the series. When the articles are quite finished they are carried out of sight by currents of commercial exchange. These currents are untraceable. -- John Bates Clark
The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question how accurately the law operates in practice. May it not be an honest law, but be so vitiated in its working as to give a dishonest result? -- John Bates Clark
My father loved me so much that he did not want me to be a laborer or anything. I don't know if it's the right thing to do - push your kids into something and then stay on them until they do it. Let them pick what they want to do. -- Joe Pesci
If you are going into any manufacturing establishment, don't go there by reason of any influence you may have. Start upon your own merits, and start in some lowly position, no matter what it is. Be a laborer, if you will. I don't know but that is the best way to start. -- Charles M. Schwab
I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books. -- Karen Hesse
I'm Method trained. How is this character like me? What does she think of her mother? What does her mother think of her? It's like construction, and then, yes, you hope you're talented and that the universe aligns and captures the kind of laborer's work you've done and whatever else sprinkles down on you, and it's all caught on film or onstage. -- Ellen Barkin
Pay the laborer his wages before his sweat dries. -- Nazr Mohammed
The wind, a sightless laborer, whistles at his task. -- William Wordsworth
Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer. -- Irving Stone
As capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer must grow worse. -- Karl Marx
I will not serve Allah like a laborer, in expectation of my wages. -- Rabia Basri
Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself. -- Henry David Thoreau
When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer. -- Miguel de Cervantes
The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant. -- Julien Benda
There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. -- Khalil Gibran
The pig is not just pork chops and bacon and ham to us. The pig is a co-laborer in this great land-healing ministry. -- Joel Salatin
To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government. -- Abraham Lincoln
We want to shut down the day laborer site. This day laborer site undermines and violates federal immigration law, and it can't go forward. -- Tom Fitton
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure. -- Henry David Thoreau
Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor. -- Abraham Lincoln
In a militia, the character of the laborer, artificer, or tradesman, predominates over that of the soldier: in a standing army, that of the soldier predominates over every other character... -- Adam Smith
As Kant says, the contribution of any common laborer would be greater than that of the greatest philosopher unless the philosopher makes some contribution to establishing the rights of humanity. -- Allen W. Wood
Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends-the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions. -- Andrew Carnegie
You simply keep putting down one damn word after the other, as you hear them, as they come to you. You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. -- Anne Lamott
There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a hospital worker, laundry worker, maid or day laborer -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The teacher's chief difficulty is poverty. He (or she) belongs to a badly paid profession. He cannot dress and live like a workman, but he is sometimes paid as little as an unskilled laborer. -- Gilbert Highet

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