"Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things."

-- Adam Smith

#Firsts Quotes #Labor Quotes

“Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real”
“Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.”
“Drinking coffee for instant relaxation? That's like drinking alcohol for instant motor skills.”
“I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service.”
“Releasing masks and veils allows the other to see you in your authenticity. Guards are dropped, and we can be seen for who we really are: the uniqueness of our personality, the beauty of our soul, our pure spirit.”
“The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It's not just about taking a pill, and your performance and your pain getting better. It's about our beliefs and expectations. It's about the cultural meaning of a treatment.”
“We were one of the first states to move most of our email into the cloud. That's gone really, really well; I think it's exceeded expectations. When we think about doing major information technology projects in this state, the default is cloud.”
“The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said.”

Source : "Let Dons Delight". Book by Ronald Knox. Note on Chapter 8, 1939.

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