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Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow. -- Annie Smith Peck
It's hard out here for a fantasy writer, after all; there's all these 'rules' I'm supposed to follow, or the Fantasy Police might come and make me do hard labor in the Cold Iron Mines. -- N. K. Jemisin
I never won anything without hard labor and the exercise of my best judgment. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Too often faith is used as an epistemological device to avoid the hard labor of straight thinking. -- Edward John Carnell
The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor. -- Nick Cave
As he farmed, hard labor left his hands callused, the sun bleached his hair, his face leathered, and his heart throbbed with music. -- Brenda Sutton Rose
It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence. -- Kenneth Rexroth
The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself:;:-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course. -- Larry Wall
You go through that stage where you're coming up with the concept, ideas and all that you need to make a record. It always feels like hard labor. -- Matt Shultz
All animals go through interminable hard labor to produce what humans shamelessly rob from them at great physical/mental pain to them and to their young. THINK TWICE before using hot 'merchandise'!!! -- Adela Popescu
Trying to accumulate wealth by the sweat of your brow and hard labor is one way to become the richest man in the graveyard. You do not have to strive or slave hard. -- Joseph Murphy
I worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week for years. Being a comic book artist is like sentencing yourself to life imprisonment at hard labor in solitary confinement. I don't think I'd do it again. -- Wally Wood
Do that, and the best you can hope for is that people will ignore you. More realistically, you'd be skinned alive, or possibly sentenced to ten year hard labor writing microcode for waffle irons and toaster ovens. -- Scott Meyers
The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of possible accuracy and the minimum of hard labor. Which being translated means: I guessed it. -- Margery Allingham
I simply cannot fathom the horrors of being enslaved, and the thought that children are ripped apart from their families and used year in and out for sex and hard labor under the threat of violence and death breaks my heart. -- Gillian Anderson
My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to understand, and can come to understand only through the characters in the imagined situation. -- May Sarton
Science has gone a long way toward helping man to free himself from the burden of hard labor; yet, science itself is not a liberator. It creates means, not goals. It is up to men to utilize those means to achieve reasonable goals. -- Albert Einstein
Work of all kinds is got from poor women, at prices that will not keep soul and body together, and then the articles thus made aresold for prices that give monstrous prices to the capitalist, who thus grows rich on the hard labor of our sex. -- Catharine Beecher
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Sport is a seductive metaphor (life as a game in which we gain victory through hard work, discipline, and visualizing success). but the older metaphor of farming (life as hard labor that is subject to weather and quirks of blind fate and may return no reward whatsoever and don't be surprised) is still in our blood. -- Garrison Keillor
To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and to take from them, as from bees, so much of their earnings, as that unremitting labor shall be necessary to obtain a sufficient surplus to sustain a scanty and miserable life. -- Thomas Jefferson
If someone were to say that life at hard labor is as painful as death and therefore equally cruel, I should reply that, taking all the unhappy moments of perpetual slavery together, it is perhaps even more painful, but these moments are spread out over a lifetime, and capital punishment exercises all its power in an instant. -- Cesare Beccaria
When you are in hard labor, remember that the length of labor is usually proportional to the number of people around. Avoid the presence of anybody who might release adrenaline. The best situation I know for an easy birth is when there is nobody else around than an experienced, motherly and silent midwife who does not behave like a guide or an observer. -- Michel Odent
In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power; and who would not balance creditor on this side, when all the hazard that is run for it, at worst, is only a sour look or two at choking. No, a merry life and a short one, shall be my motto. -- Bartholomew Roberts
Nelson Mandela once remarked that he befriended his jailers, those grim, khaki-clad overseers of his decades of hard labor in a limestone quarry, by "exploiting their good qualities." Asked if he believed all people were kind at their core, he responded, "There is no doubt whatsoever, provided you are able to arouse their inherent goodness." If that sounds like wishful thinking, well, he actually did it. -- Marc Ian Barasch
I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed. -- Chief Joseph
Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination. -- Ishmael Reed
I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics. -- Natalie Merchant
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. -- Socrates
I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel. -- Rufus Wainwright
I'm really proud of an independent movie called 'Angel's Perch' that you can get now on demand. It's a labor of love. People worked really, really hard, and it's a beautiful film. -- Ashley Jones
Fundamentally, the basis of all modern progress is the efficiency of labor. And the only sure road to restored prosperity is through the thrift and hard work of our people as a whole. -- Charles M. Schwab
Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise. -- Al Franken
Labor must work harder to attract and retain members. The party should be cheaper to join with discounted rates available for union members as well as for students, pensioners, and people out of work. -- Bill Shorten
In the struggle between capital and labor, more often than not capital has won, because the real source of value for most companies has historically been the hard assets that they owned and controlled. -- James Surowiecki
Growth makes management easier. In particular, it makes making labor concessions seem easy. It's when growth stops because you're being disrupted that managing becomes really, really hard, and as a result, most disrupted companies simply disappear. -- Clayton Christensen
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. -- Samuel McChord Crothers
We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality. -- Arthur C. Brooks
One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful. -- Thomas Arnold
I feel sometimes that there's this sense that people are poor because they want to be, or they're working-class because they want to be or because they don't work hard enough. I feel like there's this demonization of working people in general, but specifically definitely labor union members. -- Linda Sanchez
It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison. -- Ashley Montagu
I've got a really hard election. If you had a really hard election and it was after Labor Day would you go to North Carolina to a bunch of parties and glad-handing or would you stay home and work as hard as you know how to convince Missourians they should rehire you? -- Claire McCaskill
In the late 19th century there was a major union organization, Knights of Labor, and also a radical populist movement based on farmers. It's hard to believe, but it was based in Texas, and it was quite radical. They wanted their own banks, their own cooperatives, their own control over sales and commerce. -- Noam Chomsky
All honest labor becomes easy; it only becomes hard when done with unwillingness. -- Clive James
Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it. -- St. Jerome
Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success. -- Napoleon Hill
Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it. -- Helen Keller
When your mom was not in labor yelling at me, she made me laugh so hard. -- Jim Gaffigan
No labor is hard, no time is long, wherein the glory of eternity is the mark we level at. -- Francis Quarles
It's equally hard and labor intensive to create an image on the computer as it is in a darkroom. Believe me. -- Jerry Uelsmann
Samuel Gompers has spent his life trying to keep labor from working too hard and has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. -- Will Rogers
There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work. -- Thomas A. Edison
If you use a poor headline, it does not matter how hard you labor over your copy because your copy will not be read. -- John Caples
It is sad that today many times people give up in the hard times and never get to enjoy the fruit of all their labor. -- Joyce Meyer
No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue. -- Gertrude Atherton
People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work. -- Marcus Aurelius
I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well is very hard to do. Always. -- Nicholas Sparks

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