"If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs."

-- William Feather

#Work Quotes #Land Quotes #People Quotes

“I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.”
“Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure.”
“Fashion is much more collaborative than one might think. You have to have an idea and vision and you have to communicate that vision to a team of people and you have to create an environment that allows those people to give the best that they can give.”
“I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. Ill take an angry moose any day.”
“Sure, I do wish I sometimes got to play more heroes, but hey, I can't beat the fact that I am working constantly. Anyway, look at me. I'm six-four, three feet wide, have a really deep voice, and this face; I'm not precisely the romantic comedy stereotype, right?”
“Investment in girls' education may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world.”

Source : Lawrence H. Summers (1994). “Investing in All the People: Educating Women in Developing Countries”, p.1, World Bank Publications
“If people want me to go round and talk to governments and others then I feel that responsibility which is why I am on the road a good deal of the time and why I'm not slowing down.”
“'The scientific method,' Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, 'is nothing but the normal working of the human mind.' That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in correcting its mistakes.”

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