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“We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time and energy to industrial occupations. The monetary equivalent of a living wage varies according to local conditions, but must include enough to secure the elements of a normal standard of living-a standard high enough to make morality possible, to provide for education and recreation, to care for immature members of the family, to maintain the family during periods of sickness, and to permit of reasonable saving for old age.”

“Acting is one element in a film. Directing is sort of the painter using all of those elements - sound and music and camera and putting it all together. And that can be fun and exciting. If you fail, it's incredibly upsetting - much more upsetting than when you're an actor. But when you succeed it's incredibly, incredibly exciting, so I like the risk of it all.”

Ifs Together Film Actors Fun Sound Acting Failing Risk Succeed Elements Exciting Cameras Painter Upset Sound And Music Film Directing

Author:George Clooney

“your soul needs to be lonely so that its strangest elements can moil about, curl and growl and jump, fail and get triumphant, all inside you. Sociable people have the most trouble hearing their unconscious. They have trouble getting rid of clichés because clichés are sociable.”

People Needs Soul Failing Trouble Loneliness Elements Lonely Hearing Your Soul Unconscious Curls Triumphant Sociable

Book:The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature

Source: The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature

“Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature -- it makes the proud man meek -- the cheerful, sad -- the high-spirited, tame; our strongest resolutions, our hardiest energy fail before it. Believe me, you cannot prophesy of its future effect in a man from any knowledge of his past character.”

“Human beings are innately loving beings. When we fail to love, it is because an element of ignorance has intruded into our experience, submerging our natural impulse to love.”

Love Humans Natural Human Beings Failing Ignorance Elements Experience Impulse

Author:Nhat Hanh

“When winter fails to provide an adequate snow base, my boys bring their sleds in the house and ride them down the stairs. Just the other day, my wife found them with a rope out their second-story bedroom window, preparing to rappel down the side of the house. The recipe for fun is pretty simple raising boys: Add to any activity an element of danger, stir in a little exploration, add a dash of destruction, and you've got yourself a winner.”

Source: Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

“We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements.”

Failing Drama Limits Elements Appeals Poorest

Author:George P. Baker

“Whining about your own, others', or the world's failings is a main element in what we usually call neurosis.”

World Failing Elements Neurosis Whining

Author:Albert Ellis

“I guess I think that sex and desire and humiliation are central to my experience of consciousness - to my experience of humanness - and I wanted to explore the ways that they circle around and approach and fail to add up to love, or the ways that those three terms - sex, desire, love - can in some lights seem synonymous and in others like elements entirely alien to one another.”

Thinking Way Light Seems Wanted Desire Three Sex Term Consciousness Failing Elements Approach Add Circles Aliens Humiliation Humanness Desire Love

Author:Garth Greenwell