"Labor, like Israel, has many sorrows. Its women weep for their fallen and they lament for the future of the children of the race. It ill behooves one who has supped at labor's table and who has been sheltered in labor's house to curse with equal fervor and fine impartiality both labor and its adversaries when they become locked in deadly embrace."

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Source : Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

John L. Lewis

#Children Quotes #Race Quotes #Israel Quotes

“I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.”
“The problem with my eyes is that they have been famished, but now they are feasting.”
“It is not easy to explain how I felt while I read, but I will try. No doubt you, as a reader, will understand. It appeared I found myself in a place where no one could bother me, where no one could reach me. I grew impervious to all the noises around me.”

Source : Tatiana de Rosnay (2012). “The House I Loved”, p.149, Macmillan
“I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.”
“I want to create the airplane that flies in the rarified atmosphere of Mars. This is what galvanizes a generation to want to become scientists and engineers in the first place, not we need a scientist to develop a plane that's 20 percent more fuel-efficient than the one your parents flew.”
“Pain is that last quarter of a mile. You feel it, but when youâ€™re through racing, your whole body just feels elated. So the pain is worth it.”
“You can't bank on the outcome.”
“Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.”

Source : "Barbour Responds to 2012 Chatter". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 8, 2009.

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