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  • Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.

    Louisa May Alcott (1872). “Little women, or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. [Followed by Good wives]”, p.111
  • The press of this countrty is now and always has been so thoroughly dominated by the wealthy few of the country that it cannot be depended upon to give the great mass of the people the correct information concerning political, economical, and social subjects which it is necessary that the mass of people shall have, in order that they shall vote and in all ways act in the best way to protect themselves from the brutal force and chicanery of the ruling and employing class.

    Country   Order   Class  
  • When this crisis began, crucial decisions about what would happen to some of the world's biggest companies - companies employing tens of thousands of people and holding trillions of dollars in assets - took place in hurried discussions in the middle of the night. We should not be forced to choose between allowing a company to fall into a rapid and chaotic dissolution or forcing taxpayers to foot the bill.

    Fall   Night   People  
    Obama Wall Street Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 14, 2009.
  • The discounting presumably is to be done for each period of time at that rate of interest which represents the alternative cost of employing capital in the occupation in question; that is, at the rate which the entrepreneur could obtain in other investments

    "The Theory of the Firm in the Last Ten Years". The American Economic Review, Volume 32, No. 4, p. 793, December 1942.
  • There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.

    Children   Work   Society  
    Lewis Wickes Hine, John R. Kemp (1986). “Lewis Hine: photographs of child labor in the new South”, Univ Pr of Mississippi
  • The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in their totality, and, on the other hand, the achievement of this aim by employing a minimum of primary concepts and relations.

  • 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 (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.49, Courier Corporation
  • In fact, the big steps forward for advertising, especially after World War I were when government just began employing the tools of advertising for its own purposes to get people to join the army and other things.

    War   Army   Government  
    Source: www.npr.org
  • Today, our economy is divided: fifty percent is the public economy and fifty percent is the private economy that includes small companies employing from 4 to 200 workers.

    Fifty   Today   Economy  
  • As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt.

    Book   Average   Milk  
    Calvin Trillin (1987). “Uncivil liberties”, Penguin Group USA
  • Capablanca plays very superficially sometimes, in a way that can only be ascribed to lack of concentration. This is an integral weakness of his make-up and can only be partially compensated by his employing his time allowance to the full.

    Play   Weakness   Chess  
  • 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.

    Gun   Order   Class  
    Alexander Berkman (2010). “Now and After: the ABC of Anarchist Communism”, p.17, Lulu.com
  • You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden character or essence of whatever we want to describe, and through the use of fancy, association, contrast, extension, or imagination, to enlarge our understanding or perception of human experience and observation.

  • People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake.

    Mean   Sleep   People  
  • You do not have to be an economist to know that putting up the cost of employing someone is a pretty barking thing to do when you're trying to get out of a recession.

    Trying   Cost   Economist  
    "The Economist" Interview, www.economist.com. March 31, 2010.
  • From 8,000 miles away... I would not judge a fellow soldier from a friendly nation and how they are employing their resources.

  • You see, I don't belive that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, that has been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.

    Animal   People   Silence  
  • It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”
  • 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.

    Book   Writing   Eye  
    Walter Bagehot, Norman St. John-Stevas (1965). “The collected works of Walter Bagehot”
  • Rather than employing it as a supplement to active, conscious seeing, they used the medium as a substitute, paying less attention to the world than they had done previously, taking it on faith that photography automatically assured them possession of it.

  • The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt several times. This man had already passed through the two stages of observation and generalization. He had not, however, what scientific technique demands - a careful choice of significant facts on the one hand, and, on the other hand, various means of arriving at laws otherwise than my mere generalization.

    Mean   Science   Men  
    "The Scientific Outlook".
  • Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

    Louisa May Alcott, General Press (2016). “Little Women (Illustrated Edition)”, p.120, GENERAL PRESS
  • Of all the cares or concerns of government, the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of power by a single hand. The direction of war implies the direction of the common strength; and the power of directing and employing the common strength, forms a usual and essential part in the definition of the executive authority.

    Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2007). “The Federalist Papers”, p.565, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
  • Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award.

    Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. November, 2004.
  • The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few who can acquire a sense of worth by developing and employing their capacities and talents. The majority prove their worth by keeping busy.

    Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • 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.

    Art   Mean   Imagination  
    W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “The Magician: A Novel”, p.67, The Floating Press
  • People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.

  • The same as in a German neighborhood, the stores are run by Germans, and in a Chinese neighborhood they're run by Chinese. In the negro neighborhood the businesses should be owned and operated by Negroes and, thereby, they would be creating employment for Negroes.

    Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.
  • I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words to heighten the patness of the image, and so making of it a conceit rather than a metaphor, a fault copiously illustrated in the poetry of Cowley, Waller, Donne, and others of that ilk.

    Style   Faults   Metaphor  
  • The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.

    War   Men   Weaponry  
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