"The skills and productivity of American Workers, not to mention the taxes they pay, are the greatest economic resource our country has. To condemn large numbers of them to unemployment, to deprive the Treasury of their tax contributions and to force them to live on unemployment at public expense is the most expensive luxury any society ever chose to buy."

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Source : The AFL-CIO American Federationist, Vols. 84-86, p. 4, 1977.

Lane Kirkland

#Country Quotes #Skills Quotes #Luxury Quotes

“Humor prevents a hardening of the attitudes.”
“It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.”

Source : "Bryan Batt, ‘Mad Men’ Actor, Talks 54 Below Cabaret Show And Living A ‘Happy, Open Life’" by Curtis M. Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2013.
“Winning wasn't natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind.”
“That is the key to navigating this life - don't take it too seriously. That's when the party begins.”
“Ah me! why may not love and life be one?”

Source : Henry Timrod (2007). “The Collected Poems of Henry Timrod: A Variorum Edition”, p.79, University of Georgia Press
“People can get blinded by a sense of being comfortable or feeling secure, but that's quite a cynical point of view.”
“Know that when you seek anything of your own, you will never find God, because you do not seek God purely. You are seeking something along with God, and you are acting just as if you were to make a candle out of God in order to look for something with it. Once one finds the things one is looking for, one throws the candle away. This is what you are doing.”
“I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.”

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