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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

George Washington

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Joseph Joubert

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Seneca

All wealth is the product of labor.

John Locke

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

Menander

The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Menander

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

Luc De Clapier De Vauvanargues

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

Thomas A. Edison

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

William Hazlitt

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

We're in a very tight labor market. It's a crunch.

Kathryn Schmidt

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

Sir Joshua Reynolds

Achievement - You can do anything you set your mind to when you have vision, determination, and an endless supply of expendable labor.

Larry Kersten

You're basically seeing a $50 all-day show for $5. That isn't a bad way to kick off Labor Day weekend.

Valerie Diallo

Continued focus on (employee) turnover is of critical importance, because of the direct relation of turnover to improvements in labor costs and guest satisfaction.

Finley Peter Dunne

In labor and delivery, things can go really bad very quickly, sometimes in a case of seconds.

David Joyce

It's against the law to go out on Sunday from the end of June until Labor Day. It forces the fishermen to spend some time with their families.

Anne Miller

We have the labor. What we're going to need is the materials.

Norm Johnson

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.

Natalie Merchant

Get us the cargo, and we'll get you the labor.

James Campbell

It gave us an opportunity to change the labor movement, but unfortunately the labor movement didn't take it.

Anna Burger

Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.

Bill Hybels

As far as we are concerned, Labor Day is a legitimate venue for the workers to exercise their constitutional right to freedom of assembly.

Josua Mata

We always offer bidding and we are always open to union labor.

Jonathan Stein

The labor market appears solid heading into 2006, which could have bolstered the confidence reading in January.

Stephen Stanley

We know he isn't a transit-friendly, labor friendly governor. I hope he hears the public and passengers out there. We will continue to ask him.

Yvette Salazar

Hastings itself actually provides a lot more jobs than what our labor force shows.

Dee Haussler

Was an amazingly effective, highly popular labor leader. But as a citizen, he was not good, a criminal. His closest friends were genuinely big league mobsters. But he was enormously charismatic, hard-driving, very bright.

Arthur Sloane

We're definitely enjoying the fruits of our labor.

Joey Zehr

In our business, managing your labor costs is paramount.

Doug Jackson

We believe that it's not only a good exercise of business judgment, but it's fundamentally right to offer as many options to our labor force as we can.

Jack Butler

After Labor Day, we'll have a conversation with voters about what Proposition 75 is really about.

Sarah Leonard

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Sir Philip Sidney

You have to have a few things: You have to have a site, and you have to have the labor availability. And you have to have cash.

Mike Randle

We cannot physically be there to help our fellow nurses so we offer this Labor Day 'Labor of Love' challenge in an effort to do what we can to help.

Sandra Taylor

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Harold Wilson

Will we have a traditional Labor Day weekend -- absolutely not, ... No one with any soul will not be tempered by what we are going through.

Lee Sullivan

With the Labor Day weekend, it's been pretty good. We've had approximately 150 or so customers during the five-hour period.

Mike Austin

The Effects of Wal-Mart on Labor Markets.

David Neumark

We've got a lot of extraordinary things happening in Midtown because the city has made it priority No. 1. There's been a directed effort to improve employment and community opportunities, and some of the fruits of that labor are being borne.

Dave Goodwin

We understand that graduates are eager to find a job, but the country's labor law states that employees should be paid according to their performance.

Lu Tingfei

Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.

Wernher von Braun

The hotels are facing a very, very formidable labor union.

Bob Bruno

Built into the labor market.

Kirk Johnson

It's been very labor-intensive, and it's also a situation where there's been some very tight federal deadlines.

Chris Henson

The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.

Werner Von Braun

But certainly we are not forging ahead with the smelter on the basis that we have some global competitive advantage in capital or labor.

John Benson

We have the highest unit labor costs in the industry.

Neal Cohen

These labor unions are very apprehensive on the question of Europe.

Guy Groux

Political elites of both parties want to continue to allow this cheap labor to flow in because business is asking for it.

Rick Oltman

Cheap labor, that's the only one. They don't have anything else.

Frank Gong

The hurricanes which battered the U.S Gulf Coast did not have the impact on the labor market as was earlier expected.

Dariusz Kowalczyk

The health care contribution is going to be absolutely disastrous in the future. Instead of holding our ground, we're acquiescing to the anti-labor ideology of Bloomberg, Pataki and the Republican agenda.

George Perlstein

It probably needs about $70,000 worth of material and labor, but we're going to do it for about $10,000.

Chris Megison

They're a tough, good team, well-coached and fundamental. That Kelly Labor is just a sensational player.

Jim Loughran

Some franchises might have doubled in value since the labor contract was signed, though not all.

Jeffrey Vanderbeek

We didn't factor in the labor savings at the stores, which was huge.

Steve Belardi

We expect Northwest to formally increase its labor asking price from $1.1 billion to $1.4 billion in the next few days.

Jamie Baker

This is not a see-saw. This is major shift in labor-management relations.

Terry Trippler

Basically, costs associated with labor and manufacturing have caught up to us.

Patrick Rainey

I'm in this business because I despise honest labor.

Marty Robbins

Ultimately, American business and organized labor should want the same thing: a more competitive and prosperous America.

Thomas Donohue

If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.

Alexis Herman

Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941.

Albert Speer

And there's a shortage of labor in New Orleans and if we don't get a lot of volunteers going down there, some of the stuff won't get done.

Lee Powell

I thought I was just having false (labor) pains again.

Laura Jones

Works before conversion cannot engage God, and works after conversion can not satisfy God - all the endeavor and labor of the creature will never procure it.

Thomas Manton

I was hopeful we'd be able to resolve this without the (Labor Relations Board).

Rebecca Bradley

Anything labor related will matter.

John Waterman

Our process tends to be non-automated, non-robotic, non-conveyor; so labor rates are a big deal to us.

Paul Wilbur

Failure to respond to the letter is an additional unfair labor practice.

Gil Gall

With the assault on labor right now, it was important for us to be out with all the unions.

Bob Rose

Our company goal is to raise more than $5,000 through Helpful Hardware Card sales on Labor Day Weekend.

John Rutter

The economy is doing fine and the labor market is on the mend.

Joseph Lavorgna

From labor health, from health contentment springs.

Melody Beattie

Labor started it and in fact I do agree with some statements that has been made and branded as racist.

Jale Baba

Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love.

Bible

The big concern is future inflation and the Fed is viewing that through the labor market. Wage growth continues to be muted.

Jeffrey Saut

We never doubted for a second Ron Carey would emerge as a historic figure in the labor movement and an honest man.

Reid Weingarten

They all take time. It's a labor-intensive, time-consuming process.

Daniel White

Our reaction is one of bitter disappointment. British car industry jobs are being sacrificed on the altar of this country's flexible labor market.

Richard O'brien

My husband was just OK looking. I was in labor and I said to him, 'What if she's ugly? You're ugly.'

Beverly Johnson

Labor Day weekend is not as important from an economic standpoint as it used to be.

Lee Sentell

The first thing to do to improve things for day laborers is to have more of these centers. The second thing is to have the government enforce the labor laws more consistently.

Pablo Alvarado

We needed a game like this. We'll see the game film and see what we have to work on. We're going to be working on Labor Day.

Robert Davis

This is a labor of love.

Charlotte Moore

The strike is an unfair labor practice strike.

Robert Weaver

Labor has too often been the political arm of the Democratic Party. That ends now.

John Wilhelm

The state of labor in Arizona is that we're healthy and getting healthier all the time.

Michael Mcgrath

We are up 22 percent from 2001, when we had 16,500 patients. We are looking to expand the emergency room, labor and delivery and add a convenience care clinic.

Laura Carter

Health plans are a central focus of any labor negotiation that goes on today.

Jim Berg

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Robert Burns

The strike is an increasingly weak tool. Labor laws are not going to help you at all.

Brendan Cummins

Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital.

Pope Leo Xiii

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet.

Bible

Unfortunately, our understanding of labor history is (bad) -- it is not taught, it is not celebrated.

Haskell Wexler

We saw a need to get some skilled labor out there in the field quickly.

Matthew Johnson

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

Contractors are not ecstatic about putting their labor hours and [other direct costs] into the EVM system.

Norman Enger

In that environment, it's only natural to expect the switch from labor into technology.

Carlos Asilis

The earnings momentum will accelerate. The gap between price increases and labor costs is very wide.

Roger Nightingale

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

James Whistler

We'll see continued downward pressure on unit labor costs in the first quarter. I think it's favorable on the inflation front.

Keith Hembre

Without drastically reducing labor expenses, several thousand jobs will be lost and new ones won't be created.

Gyorgy Matolcsy

I think the strategy of engaging labor is really the only strategy there is.

Thomas Horton

There is very clear data that inducing labor at this point reduces the number of cesarean sections because of fetal distress.

Charles Lockwood

I think it's a labor of love for everybody who was involved with it.

Dick Schaap

If anything has changed, it's that Americans are now even more reliant on U.S. farmers and ranchers for their food security, and farmers and ranchers are even more dependent on hired labor.

Austin Perez

Having school start after Labor Day is a big help for us, and for other business in the community.

David Hosticka

Climate change is the biggest threat to hockey since the NHL labor talks.

Mike Hudema

We do see emergencies regularly. From women in labor to this scenario. Everything in between and if you ask the paramedics the port of entry is one of the most common as far as calls.

Roger Maier

Friends are the greatest labor and the greatest reward.

Jason Zebehazy

Companies are finding it difficult to pass on their higher input costs so they're looking at labor costs instead.

Grant Lewis

We probably are OK (with gasoline supplies) to get to Labor Day, but the question is how much is demand going to fall off (after the holiday) and what's crude going to do and how does that impact the gasoline price.

Doug Macintyre

A collective bargaining agreement is not the only way a labor movement can represent workers.

Karen Nussbaum

In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.

Edwin P. Whipple

Grunt work, hard labor - that's what we're looking for. We can put our guys to work. We want it to be challenging.

Chris Boden

Industries that are experiencing labor shortages, such as health care, are very focused on this segment.

Deborah Russell

We decided we would talk after the (Labor Day) holiday. That's all I know.

Herb Rudoy

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Victor Hugo

China, with its low cost of labor, has a comparative advantage in shoe manufacturing.

Chong Quan

No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind.

Gertrude Franklin Atherton

A state needs low-wage labor to compete. I don't care where you are, it's a must.

John Kasarda

Day labor is not a niche market. It's now entering different aspects of the national mainstream economy.

Abel Valenzuela

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

Henry George

Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them.

David Frost

If I didn't draw comics I was a worthless human being. It was tedious labor, so I worked fast to get it over with.

Robert Crumb

Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

We want documentation for all of the immigrants, we want to stop all the abusing, all the lowest pay they are getting for the hardest working labor.

Victor Guardin

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

Plutarch

Farm work is hard work, and a lot of folks just don't want to do it at any wage. This is not about cheap labor.

Patrick O'brien

Factory and labor utilization rates are too high. Companies will have to add inventory and they will have to add people.

Bob Allsbrook

That's consistent with the idea that labor market conditions are not really improving yet. They're not getting worse, either, but they've only stabilized.

Peter Kretzmer

It has been a labor of love. It's a concept Chesney came up with in carrying out the premise that our museums are repositories of the American experiences.

Marc Doyle

The Department of Labor is committed to getting benefits to eligible workers and their families as quickly as possible.

David James

The company has been fined by the Council of Labor for its wrongdoing. Now why has it dared to do this without hesitation?

Joanna Lei

I'd say shareholders go backward. Management goes backward. Labor goes backward. What a settlement!

David Littman

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Brooks Atkinson

It is a reminder to businesses everywhere that they have a duty to make sure their outside contractors are following immigration and labor laws.

Mona Williams

After Labor Day, our season pretty much ends.

Steve Mills

This system is very, very broken. We need a comprehensive reform bill that will deal with the real economic demand for immigrant labor.

Laura Reiff

There's not enough skilled labor in this town to build even half of what has been proposed.

Richard Lee

For all kinds of reasons, the labor pool is smaller.

Bill Caylor

An unfair labor-practices strike.

Linda Thompson

I am absolutely flabbergasted by the turn of events, and I was one of the five that voted no. This is an absolute betrayal of the New York City labor movement.

George Perlstein

Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.

John Florio

In Indonesia we are focusing on the 'basics' of the business to improve productivity from our labor force and better utilization of existing assets.

Terry Davis

The important thing would be just to make it through to Labor Day.

Brandon Ford

We got clearance from Labor and Industries to go back to work and we're continuing to monitor the building.

Laura Prisc

It was a labor of love. We worried it wouldn't be done in time.

Greg Cummings

This garden has been a labor of love for my mom and the rest of our family.

Linda Hope

I don't think it was labor. It was just love. He lived and breathed this and it was something he was passionate about. When Dad got passionate about something, he didn't let go.

Bob O'leary

I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

Col. Harland Sanders

May end up importing labor from other producing regions.

David Dismukes

In the beginning, even before we had a chance to have serious talks, they began making preparations for a labor dispute.

Brian Daley

We do have a labor market that's basically on fire.

Brian Jones

It's apparent that the Labor Department had some problems seasonally adjusting for the Veterans Day holiday.

Ted Wieseman

It saves in labor about two hours a day from the information site. Which allows them to spend more time in the sow barns. That's huge.

Jack Tichy

Clearly, a failure to address our nation's agriculture labor crisis would cripple our state's No. 1 industry.

Larry Wooten

There's no labor shortage coming.

Peter Cappelli

It's no secret we have an economy based on construction. I don't know how we'll escape labor and materials shortages.

Rebecca Holmes

An available labor pool translates to lower costs.

Brad Martin

The Conservative Party is no longer conservative, the Labor Party is no longer socialist.

Rodney Barker

You have all these people around the area that's out of work, and they're hiring these people for cheaper labor instead of giving an honest wage to these people that's from here that's out of work.

Richard Palmer

That's one thing we can't plan for. It's out of our control. So we're hoping that we don't go into labor on the same day and we're able to be at each other's births.

Tasha Riddle

We have concluded it is the best course for the labor movement for us to ... strike off in a direction of focusing more on organizing.

Bruce Raynor

This is not a labor dispute. This is negotiations. Pemco has declared war on the workers.

Bob Wood

My brother put us up for two weeks and the kids started school the day after Labor Day.

Dorothy Berry

Germany does not need abstract economic ideas; it needs labor market reforms.

Holger Schmieding

Jobs are growing just fast enough to absorb the new entrants into the labor market but no faster.

David Penn

The whole idea behind the change was the fact that on Sunday there was a holiday right next door to Labor Day itself.

Harold King

The labor deal we did is very, very costly to small market clubs.

Jeffrey Littmann

It's hard work, but it's a labor of love.

Mike Wahl

We made all the iron that the cushion sits on, and the outside of the aisle. The inside of the aisle comes from China. That's a pretty labor-intensive casting.

Jim Gartland

Anything below 5 percent still amounts to a strong labor market.

John Shelnutt

The restaurant industry is the most labor-intensive industry in the country.

Hudson Riehle

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

James Weldon Johnson

We will absorb workers' voices to narrow the distance between labor and management.

Haruka Nishimatsu

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Jacques Maritain

He's riskier for Labor.

John Warhurst

It's not that unions are losing members, it's just that they aren't able to keep up with the growth in the labor force.

John Budd

Right now, more lawsuits are being filed under federal labor law than anytime in the history of the country.

Sal Souto

We believe a contract with steep labor concessions is the sign of a troubled core industry, not 'good news' for investors.

Gary Lapidus

The increased demand for educated labor is translating into a robust hiring outlook.

Brent Rasmussen

Ed Hansen was one of the people who was instrumental in reviving the Labor Day celebration (in Ontonagon).

Jim Waters

Granted, a low-quality job is better than no job, but the headline employment figures exaggerate the real strength of the Canadian labor market.

Benjamin Tal

In the last 10 years, it's gotten to be a lot more economically feasible. Because of the short install and the lack of labor costs, it can get done quickly.

Mike Clayton

There is a lot of demand to fill hotels and the convention center in a market bound by outdated labor jurisdictions.

Anthony Abbate

The business case for manufacturing in Brazil is not about optimizing labor costs but about getting inside a complex duty system.

Jan Lindholm

Christmas accessories and related goods are labor-intensive products with low added value.

Wan Fuli

It's probably the most expensive, intrusive regulation ever promulgated certainly by the Department of Labor, maybe by government entirely. It's costs are in the billion and billions of dollars.

Don Nickles

Really, ... what we're talking about here is the U.S. struggling to find its place in an economy where the labor markets are just so vastly different.

Jason Schultz

We weren't a party to that labor agreement. [American] had a choice: They could breach their labor agreement or breach our deal. We needed to give them a third choice, which was a way to make both parties happy.

Ceo Bryan Bedford

It was labor of love.

Katie Ballard

The labor market data is expected to record some deterioration. This will keep the New Zealand dollar on the defensive.

Sean Comber

The market's keen to see U.S. labor costs and economic growth figures for signs of a possible interest rate hike.

Hiroichi Nishi

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Thomas Carlyle

To me it really shows that labor costs are under control.

Gary Wolfer