Famous quotes containing the words labor, day and/or hurricane:
“The mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a subscription of dollars and cents, and then, following blindly the principles of a division of labor to its extreme,a principle which should never be followed but with circumspection,to call in a contractor who makes this a subject of speculation,... and for these oversights successive generations have to pay.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The Greeks used to say, he said bitterly, using a phrase that had been a long time on his mind, that when a man became a slave, on the first day he lost one-half of his virtue.”
—John Dos Passos (18961970)
“Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
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