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«We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.»
«What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures,»
Author: Samuel Gompers
(President)
| About:
Labor
| Keywords:
arsenals, cultivate, greed, jails, leisure, revenge, schoolhouse, Schoolhouses
«Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.»
Author: Isadora Duncan
(Dancer)
| Keywords:
around, at leisure, concentrated, concentrates, direction, glance, glanced, glances, glancing, have-not, leisure, live in, purposes, state, sufficiently, tempted, They Live, vegetative, virtuous
«To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
at present, civilization, fill, intelligently, leisure, level, product, reached
«What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have, - leisure and a quiet mind»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
banker, clown, leisure, meanest, sighs
«Wit needs leisure, and certain inequalities of position»
«War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
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Peace,
War
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breathing, breathing time, contrive, contriving, execute, furnishes, leisure, leisure time, prince
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