David Dale (6 January 1739 – 17 March 1806) was a Scottish merchant and businessman, known for establishing the influential weaving community of New Lanark, in South Lanarkshire, Scotland and is credited along with his son in law Robert Owen of being a founder of utopian socialism and a founding father of socialism
Read more about David Dale: Early Career, Marriage and Success, Partnerships and New Lanark, Religion, Caroline Dale Owen, Retiral and Death, Bibliography, Sources
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“You say that you do not succeed much. Does it concern you enough that you do not? Do you work hard enough at it? Do you get the benefit of discipline out of it? If so persevere. Is it a more serious thing than to walk a thousand miles in a thousand successive hours? Do you get any corns by it? Do you ever think of hanging yourself on account of failure?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I am a working woman. I take care of a home. I hold down a job. I am nuts.”
—Barbara Dale (b. 1940)