"If any thing can be predicated as universally true of uncultivated man, it is that he will not labour beyond what is absolutely necessary to maintain his existence."

-- Derrick Jensen

#Men Quotes #Existence Quotes #Labour Quotes

“Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.”
“There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.”
“You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.”

Source : "Marissa Mayer: Six life lessons from Yahoo CEO" by Rose Hoare, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2012.
“Sometimes, you just have to go in there and bowl people over with your sheer force of will.”
“Disunity costs votes.”

Source : "UK economy has passed darkest moment, says John Major" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2012.
“We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.”
“I have three sisters, that's it for the family.”
“It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.”

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