Ruth McKenney famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.
-- Ruth McKenney -
Instantly, the noise stopped. The whole room lay in perfect silence. The tire builders stood in long lines, touching each other, perfectly motionless, deafened by the silence.... For the first time in history, American mass-production workers had stopped a conveyor belt and halted the inexorable movement of factory machinery.
-- Ruth McKenney
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I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
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Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
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If we experienced life through the eyes of a child, everything would be magical and extraordinary. Let our curiosity, adventure and wonder of life never end.
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He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
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We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
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All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals
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Every employee must be essential to the functions of the organization.
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