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“Let us seek to extend the present life to the uttermost by observing every law of health, and by properly balancing labor, study, rest and recreation.”

Law Study Labor Observing Pyramids Recreation Present Life

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“Economic theory is the most prestigious subject of instruction and study. Agricultural economics, labor economics and marketing are lower caste fields of study.”

Study Economic Subjects Fields Theory Economics Labor Marketing Instruction Castes Economic Theory Prestigious

Book:the new industrial state

Source: the new industrial state

“This priesthood became a closed group, able to control enormous wealth and incomes, and concerned very largely with the study of the solar and astronomical periodicities on which there influence was originally based. With the surplus thus created, the priesthood was able to command human labor in huge amounts and to direct this labor from the simple tillage of the peasant peoples to the diversified and specialized activities that constitute civilized living.”

Humans Able Wealth Simple Study Groups Influence Huge Amount Activity Concerned Labor Direct Enormous Income Command Civilized Peasants Priesthood Surplus Periodicity

Author:Carroll Quigley

“I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.”

Found Study Taken Labor Spells Manuals Invigorating Manual Labor

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“High birth is a gift of fortune which should never challenge esteem towards those who receive it, since it costs them neither study nor labor.”

Should Challenges Study Birth Cost Labor Fortune Esteem

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The NSF study projected a shortfall of 675,000 scientists and engineers without considering the future demand for such individuals in the marketplace. It simply observed a decline in the number of 22-year-olds and projected that this demographic trend would result in a huge shortfall. This could be termed the supply-side theory of labor market analysis. But making labor market projections without considering the demand side of the equation doesn't pass the laugh test with experts in the field.”

“In colleges, there are no gender separations in courses of study, and students can freely choose their majors. There are no male and female math classes. But women generally choose college courses that pay less in the labor market. Those are the choices that women themselves make. Those choices contribute to the pay gap.”

Source: Phyllis Schlafly: Volume I

“Don't labor forever over the question of how or if you can do it. Studies have shown that the most successful people make decisions rapidly because they are clear on their values and what they really want for their lives.”

People Ifs Want Values Can Do Decision Forever Study Successful Clear Labor Successful People You Can Do It Decisiveness

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only of recombining but of re-creating the given world. In order to do this adequately, avoiding duplication of labor, the artist should know the given world.”

Knows World Should Artist Order Given Creative Study Creating Capacity Labor Including Almighty Avoiding Rivals Creative Writers Duplication

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“We have not been men of prayer. The spirit of prayer has slumbered among us. The closet has been too little frequented and delighted in. We have allowed business, study or active labor to interfere with our closet-hours. And the feverish atmosphere in which both the church and the nation are enveloped has found its way into our prayer closets.”

Men Way Littles Has Beens Spirit Found Nations Hours Church Prayer Study Labor Active Atmosphere Interfere Closets Our Prayers Delighted

Author:Bonar Law

“It is impossible for one man both to labor day and night to get a living, and at the same time give himself to the study of sacred learning as the preaching office requires.”

Men Giving Night Study Impossible Office Labor Sacred One Man Preaching Day And Night Labor Day

Author:Martin Luther